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By AndrewHyman Posted in SCOTUS — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The ages of the Chief Justices when they took office were as follows:

44 John Jay
56 John Rutledge
51 Oliver Ellsworth
46 John Marshall
59 Roger Brooke Taney
56 Salmon Portland Chase
58 Morrison R. Waite
55 Melville Weston Fuller
65 Edward Douglas White
64 William Howard Taft
68 Charles Evans Hughes
69 Harlan Fiske Stone
56 Fred M. Vinson
62 Earl Warren
62 Warren E. Burger
62 William H. Rehnquist

Note that we have another post listing the ages of some present-day SCOTUS candidates, and still another post describing the ages of SCOTUS nominees in the past. Not that age matters, of course.