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List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are located across 26 states and the District of Columbia. The state with the most U.S. Supreme Court justice burial sites is Virginia with 20 – 14 of which are at Arlington National Cemetery. Since it was established in 1789, 114 persons have served as a justice (associate justice or chief justice) on the Supreme Court; of these, 104 have died. The first death of a justice was that of James Wilson on August 21, 1798, and the most recent was that of Sandra Day O'Connor on December 1, 2023. William Howard Taft, who was chief justice from 1921 to 1930 after serving as president of the United States from 1909 to 1913, was the first justice for whom a state funeral has been held; Justice Ginsburg, who served as an associate justice from 1993 to 2020, was the second to receive this honor.[1][2][3]

The sortable table below lists each deceased justice's place of burial, along with date of death, and the order of their membership on the Court. Five people served first as associate justices, and later as chief justices, separately: Charles Evans Hughes,[upper-alpha 1] William Rehnquist,[upper-alpha 2] John Rutledge,[upper-alpha 1] Harlan F. Stone,[upper-alpha 2] and Edward Douglass White.[upper-alpha 2] While having served in two positions, these individuals are listed only once in the table, and their order of justiceship (OJ) represents the overall order in which each began their initial service on the Court as an associate justice.

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Notes

  1. Served on the Supreme Court on two separate occasions, first as an associate justice, and then, after a period of years off the Court, as chief justice.
  2. Elevated from associate justice to chief justice while serving on the Supreme Court; such appointments are subject to a separate confirmation process.
  3. Interred at this site in 1906, after initially being interred in the Johnston Cemetery at Hayes Plantation, Edenton, North Carolina.[7]
  4. Interred at this site in 1913, after initially being interred in the All Saints Church churchyard in Frederick, Maryland.[10]
  5. Interred at this site after initially being interred in the Van Renssalaer family vault at Van Rensselaer Manor, Albany, New York.[7]
  6. Interred at this site after initially being interred at Belfont Plantation in Bladen County, North Carolina.[15]
  7. Johnson's body was to be interred at St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina, and there is a monument to Johnson at that location, but sources suggest that it was never transported there from New York.[7]
  8. Interred at this site in 1844, after initially being interred in the Trinity Church churchyard in Manhattan.[17]
  9. Interred at this site after initially being interred in the Innes family cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky.[19]
  10. Interred at this site after initially being interred in the Bomford family vault at Kalorama, and then, in 1892, at Oak Hill Cemetery, both in Washington, D.C.[7]
  11. Gravesite farthest to the south is that of James Moore Wayne in Savannah, Georgia; farthest east is Nathan Clifford, Portland, Maine; farthest north is Pierce Butler, St. Paul, Minnesota;[7] and farthest west is Sandra Day O'Connor, Duncan, Arizona.
  12. Interred at this site in 1887, after initially being interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[7]
  13. Interred at this site in 1894, after initially being interred at Riverside Cemetery in Macon, Georgia.[48]
  14. Interred at this site in 1906, after initially being interred in the Harding Family Mausoleum at Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville, Tennessee.[7]
  15. Edward Terry Sanford and William Howard Taft both died on March 8, 1930; Sanford's death occurred approximately five hours before Taft's.[66]
  16. Interred at this site in 1958, after initially being interred at Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington County, Virginia.[7]

See also

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