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John Jay 1789-1795

John Rutledge 1795

Oliver Ellsworth 1796-1800

John Marshall 1801-1835

Roger Brooke Taney 1836-1864

Salmon Portland Chase 1864-1873

Morrison R. Waite 1874-1888

Melville Weston Fuller 1888-1910

Edward Douglas White 1910-1921

William Howard Taft 1921-1930

Charles Evans Hughes 1930-1946

Harlan Fiske Stone 1941-1946

Fred M. Vinson 1946-1953

Earl Warren 1953-1969

Warren E. Burger 1969-1986

William H. Rehnquist 1986-2005



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