U. S Supreme Court Justices
Appointed from States
of the Sixth Circuit

      Justices
Dates of Service
Home State
     
Thomas Todd
1807-1826
Kentucky
Robert Trimble
1826-1828
Kentucky
John McLean
1830-1861
Ohio
John Catron
1837-1865
Tennessee
Noah Haynes Swayne
1862-1881
Ohio
Salmon Portland Chase, CJ
1864-1873
Ohio
Morrison Remick Waite, CJ
1874-1888
Ohio
John Marshall Harlan
1877-1911
Kentucky
Stanley Matthews
1881-1889
Ohio
Henry Billings Brown
1891-1906
Michigan
Howell Edmunds Jackson
1893-1895
Tennessee
William Rufus Day
1903-1922
Ohio
Horace Harman Lurton
1909-1914
Tennessee
James Clark McReynolds
1914-1941
Michigan
John Hessin Clarke
1916-1922
Ohio
William Howard Taft, CJ
1921-1930
Ohio
Edward Terry Sanford
1923-1930
Tennessee
Stanley Foreman Reed
1938-1957
Kentucky
William Francis "Frank" Murphy
1940-1949
Michigan
Harold Hitz Burton
1945-1958
Tennessee
Frederick Moore Vinson, CJ
1946-1953
Kentucky
Potter Stewart
1958-1981
Ohio
Abe Fortas
1965-1969
Tennessee