Chief Justices

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, 1930-1941

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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