User:HarlandQPitt/Living Supreme Court Justices of the United States

This article shows the living Supreme Court Justices of the United States from the confirmation of the first Supreme Court Justices in 1789 until the present. The following table includes all 114 persons who have taken the judicial oath. (Persons who died before taking the oath or refused nomination are not included.) This list reflects the court's composition at any given point in history by separating active justices from those who left the bench. Currently, in addition to the active Supreme Court of the United States, there are three living former justices: Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter.

Current living Supreme Court Justices
Living Supreme Court Justices as of (from oldest to youngest):

Timeline
Number of Supreme Court Justices alive at each moment in United States history:

Most and fewest living presidents
There have been four time periods with six living presidents (i.e., the incumbent and five former presidents):
 * March 1861 to January 1862 – Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln
 * January 1993 to April 1994 – Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton (six consecutive presidents)
 * January 2001 to June 2004 – Ford, Carter, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, and G. W. Bush (six consecutive presidents)
 * January 2017 to November 2018 – Carter, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, G. W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump

There have been six time periods when the incumbent president was the only living president, having no living predecessors: Notably, Richard Nixon is the only person to have been both the only living U.S. president (from January 1973 to August 1974) and one of six living presidents (from January 1993 to April 1994).
 * April 1789 to March 1797 – George Washington, who, being the first president, had no predecessors
 * December 1799 to March 1801 – John Adams, after the death of his only predecessor, George Washington
 * July 1875 to March 1877 – Ulysses S. Grant, after the death of his last living predecessor, Andrew Johnson
 * June 1908 to March 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt, after the death of his last living predecessor, Grover Cleveland
 * January 1933 to March 1933 – Herbert Hoover, after the death of his last living predecessor, Calvin Coolidge
 * January 1973 to August 1974 – Richard Nixon, after the death of his last living predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson

Living presidents gallery
There have been several gatherings of all the living presidents. Below are photographs of groups of persons who, at one time or another, comprised all living presidents, although several of these photographs were taken prior to or after the time period in which the persons depicted were the only living presidents, and in some photos one of the presidents depicted had not yet formally taken office.