Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States, since its establishment in 1789, has numbered among its justices eight Princeton graduates. With the presidents who appointed them, they are:

WASHINGTON
William Paterson 1763 (N.J.) 1793-1806
*Oliver Ellsworth 1766 (Conn.) 1796-1800

JEFFERSON
William Johnson, Jr. 1790 (S.C.) 1804-1834
(Henry) Brockholst Livingston 1774 (N.Y.) 1806-1823

MONROE
Smith Thompson 1788 (N.Y.) 1823-1843

JACKSON
James Moore Wayne 1808 (Ga.) 1835-1867

TAFT
Mahlon Pitney 1879 (N.J.) 1912-1922

EISENHOWER
John Marshall Harlan '20 (N.Y.) 1955-1971

*Chief Justice

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From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).