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

Map of burial sites of United States Supreme Court justices.

Burial places of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are located across 25 states and the District of Columbia. The state with the most Court justice burial sites is Virginia with 18 – 12 of which are at Arlington National Cemetery. Since it was organized in 1789, 113 persons have served as a justice (associate justice or chief justice) on the Supreme Court of the United States; of these, 101 have died. The first death of a justice was that of James Wilson on August 21, 1798, and the most recent was that of Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016. William Howard Taft, who was chief justice from 1921 to 1930 after serving as President of the United States from 1909 to 1913, is (as of 2018) the only justice for whom a state funeral has been held.[1]

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.

Supreme Court Justice burial places

OJJusticeDate of deathBurial placeCityStateSite image
1 John Jay[2][upper-alpha 3] May 17, 1829 Jay Cemetery Rye New York
2 John Rutledge[3][upper-alpha 3] July 23, 1800 St. Michael's Churchyard Charleston South Carolina
3 William Cushing[4] September 13, 1810 Cushing Cemetery Scituate Massachusetts
4 James Wilson[5] August 21, 1798 Christ Church North Garden[upper-alpha 4] Philadelphia Pennsylvania
5 John Blair[7] August 31, 1800 Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery Williamsburg Virginia
6 James Iredell[8] October 20, 1799 Johnston Cemetery Edenton North Carolina
7 Thomas Johnson[9] October 26, 1819 Mount Olivet Cemetery[upper-alpha 5] Frederick Maryland
8 William Paterson[11] September 9, 1806 Albany Rural Cemetery[upper-alpha 6] Menands New York
9 Samuel Chase[12] June 19, 1811 Old Saint Paul's Cemetery Baltimore Maryland
10 Oliver Ellsworth[13][upper-alpha 3] November 26, 1807 Palisado Cemetery Windsor Connecticut
11 Bushrod Washington[14] November 26, 1829 Mount Vernon Burial Ground Mount Vernon Virginia
12 Alfred Moore[15] October 15, 1810 St. Philip's Church Cemetery Smithville Township North Carolina
13 John Marshall[16][upper-alpha 3] July 6, 1835 Shockoe Hill Cemetery Richmond Virginia
14 William Johnson[17] August 24, 1834 Unknown[upper-alpha 7] Charleston South Carolina
15 Henry Brockholst Livingston[18] March 18, 1823 Green-Wood Cemetery New York New York
16 Thomas Todd[19] February 7, 1826 Frankfort Cemetery Frankfort Kentucky
17 Gabriel Duvall[20] March 6, 1844 Marietta Plantation Grounds Glenn Dale Maryland
18 Joseph Story[21] September 10, 1845 Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts
19 Smith Thompson[22] December 18, 1843 Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery Poughkeepsie New York
20 Robert Trimble[23] August 25, 1828 Paris Cemetery Paris Kentucky
21 John McLean[24] April 4, 1861 Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati Ohio
22 Henry Baldwin[25] April 21, 1844 Greendale Cemetery[upper-alpha 8] Meadville Pennsylvania
23 James Moore Wayne[26] July 5, 1867 Laurel Grove Cemetery Savannah[upper-alpha 9] Georgia
24 Roger B. Taney[27][upper-alpha 3] October 12, 1864 St. John the Evangelist Cemetery Frederick Maryland
25 Philip Pendleton Barbour[28] February 25, 1841 Congressional Cemetery Washington, D.C.
26 John Catron[29] May 30, 1865 Mount Olivet Cemetery Nashville Tennessee
27 John McKinley[30] July 19, 1852 Cave Hill Cemetery Louisville Kentucky
28 Peter Vivian Daniel[31] May 31, 1860 Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Virginia
29 Samuel Nelson[32] December 13, 1873 Lakewood Cemetery Cooperstown New York
30 Levi Woodbury[33] September 4, 1851 Harmony Grove Cemetery Portsmouth New Hampshire
31 Robert Cooper Grier[34] September 25, 1870 West Laurel Hill Cemetery Bala Cynwyd Pennsylvania
32 Benjamin Robbins Curtis[35] September 15, 1874 Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts
33 John Archibald Campbell[36] March 12, 1889 Green Mount Cemetery Baltimore Maryland
34 Nathan Clifford[37] July 25, 1881 Evergreen Cemetery Portland[upper-alpha 9] Maine
35 Noah Haynes Swayne[38] June 8, 1884 Oak Hill Cemetery Washington, D.C.
36 Samuel Freeman Miller[39] October 13, 1890 Oakland Cemetery Keokuk Iowa
37 David Davis[40] June 26, 1886 Evergreen Memorial Cemetery Bloomington Illinois
38 Stephen Johnson Field[41] April 9, 1899 Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C.
39 Salmon P. Chase[42][upper-alpha 3] May 7, 1873 Spring Grove Cemetery[upper-alpha 10] Cincinnati Ohio
40 William Strong[43] August 19, 1895 Charles Evans Cemetery Reading Pennsylvania
41 Joseph Philo Bradley[44] January 22, 1892 Mount Pleasant Cemetery Newark New Jersey
42 Ward Hunt[45] March 24, 1886 Forest Hill Cemetery Utica New York
43 Morrison Waite[46][upper-alpha 3] March 23, 1888 Woodlawn Cemetery Toledo Ohio
44 John Marshall Harlan[47] October 14, 1911 Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C.
45 William Burnham Woods[48] May 14, 1887 Cedar Hill Cemetery Newark Ohio
46 Stanley Matthews[49] March 22, 1889 Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati Ohio
47 Horace Gray[50] September 15, 1902 Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts
48 Samuel Blatchford[51] July 7, 1893 Green-Wood Cemetery New York New York
49 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II[52] January 23, 1893 Oxford Memorial Cemetery[upper-alpha 11] Oxford Mississippi
50 Melville Fuller[54][upper-alpha 3] July 4, 1910 Graceland Cemetery Chicago Illinois
51 David Josiah Brewer[55] March 28, 1910 Mount Muncie Cemetery Lansing Kansas
52 Henry Billings Brown[56] September 4, 1913 Elmwood Cemetery Detroit Michigan
53 George Shiras, Jr.[57] August 2, 1924 Allegheny Cemetery Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
54 Howell Edmunds Jackson[58] August 8, 1895 Mount Olivet Cemetery Nashville Tennessee
55 Edward Douglass White[59][upper-alpha 3] May 19, 1921 Oak Hill Cemetery Washington, D.C.
56 Rufus Wheeler Peckham[60] October 24, 1909 Albany Rural Cemetery Menands New York
57 Joseph McKenna[61] November 21, 1926 Mount Olivet Cemetery Washington, D.C.
58 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.[62] March 6, 1935 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
59 William R. Day[63] July 9, 1923 West Lawn Cemetery Canton Ohio
60 William Henry Moody[64] July 2, 1917 South Byfield Cemetery Georgetown Massachusetts
61 Horace Harmon Lurton[65] July 12, 1914 Greenwood Cemetery Clarksville Tennessee
62 Charles Evans Hughes[66][upper-alpha 3] August 27, 1948 Woodlawn Cemetery New York New York
63 Willis Van Devanter[67] February 8, 1941 Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C.
64 Joseph Rucker Lamar[68] January 2, 1916 Summerville Cemetery Augusta Georgia
65 Mahlon Pitney[69] December 9, 1924 Evergreen Cemetery Morristown New Jersey
66 James Clark McReynolds[70] August 24, 1946 Glenwood Cemetery Elkton Kentucky
67 Louis Brandeis[71] October 5, 1941 Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Louisville Kentucky
68 John Hessin Clarke[72] March 22, 1945 Lisbon Cemetery Lisbon Ohio
69 William Howard Taft[73][upper-alpha 3] March 8, 1930[upper-alpha 12] Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
70 George Sutherland[76] July 18, 1942 Cedar Hill Cemetery Suitland Maryland
71 Pierce Butler[77] November 16, 1939 Calvary Cemetery Saint Paul[upper-alpha 9] Minnesota
72 Edward Terry Sanford[78] March 8, 1930[upper-alpha 12] Greenwood Cemetery Knoxville Tennessee
73 Harlan F. Stone[79][upper-alpha 3] April 22, 1946 Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C.
74 Owen Josephus Roberts[80] May 17, 1955 St. Andrew's Cemetery West Vincent Township Pennsylvania
75 Benjamin N. Cardozo[81] July 9, 1938 Beth Olom Cemetery New York New York
76 Hugo Black[82] September 25, 1971 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
77 Stanley Forman Reed[83] April 2, 1980 Maysville Cemetery Maysville Kentucky
78 Felix Frankfurter[84] February 22, 1965 Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Massachusetts
79 William O. Douglas[85] January 19, 1980 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
80 Frank Murphy[86] July 19, 1949 Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic Cemetery Harbor Beach Michigan
81 James F. Byrnes[87] April 9, 1972 Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery Columbia South Carolina
82 Robert H. Jackson[88] October 9, 1954 Maple Grove Cemetery Frewsburg New York
83 Wiley Blount Rutledge[89] September 10, 1949 Green Mountain Cemetery Boulder[upper-alpha 9] Colorado
84 Harold Hitz Burton[90] October 28, 1964 Highland Park Cemetery Highland Hills Ohio
85 Fred M. Vinson[91][upper-alpha 3] September 8, 1953 Pine Hill Cemetery Louisa Kentucky
86 Tom C. Clark[92] June 13, 1977 Restland Memorial Park Dallas Texas
87 Sherman Minton[93] April 9, 1965 Holy Trinity Cemetery New Albany Indiana
88 Earl Warren[94][upper-alpha 3] July 9, 1974 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
89 John Marshall Harlan II[95] December 29, 1971 Lions Plain Cemetery Weston Connecticut
90 William J. Brennan[96] July 24, 1997 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
91 Charles Evans Whittaker[97] November 26, 1973 Forest Hill Cemetery Kansas City Missouri
92 Potter Stewart[98] December 7 1985 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
93 Byron White[99] April 15, 2002 All Souls Walk at St. Johns Cathedral Denver Colorado
94 Arthur Goldberg[100] January 18, 1990 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
95 Abe Fortas[101] April 5, 1982 Cremated, not buried n/a n/a
96 Thurgood Marshall[102] January 24, 1993 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
97 Warren E. Burger[103][upper-alpha 3] June 25, 1995 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
98 Harry Blackmun[104] March 4, 1999 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
99 Lewis F. Powell, Jr.[105] August 25, 1998 Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Virginia
100 William Rehnquist[106][upper-alpha 3] September 3, 2005 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia
103 Antonin Scalia[107] February 13, 2016 Fairfax Memorial Park Fairfax Virginia

Future arrangements

As of 2018 there are 13 living justices – the nine active members of the Court plus four retired associate justices. Among them, it is fairly clear where two will be interred in the future, based upon the burial sites of their deceased spouses. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's husband, Martin, and John Paul Stevens' (second) wife, Maryan are both buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[108][109][110]

Notes

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 Elevated from associate justice to chief justice while serving on the Supreme Court; such appointments are subject to a separate confirmation process.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Served as chief justice
  4. ↑ Interred at this site in 1906, after initially being interred in the Johnston Cemetery at Hayes Plantation, Edenton, North Carolina.[6]
  5. ↑ Interred at this site after initially being interred in All Saints Churchyard in Frederick Maryland.[10]
  6. ↑ Interred at this site after initially being interred in the Van Renssalaer family vault at Van Rensselaer Manor, Albany, New York.[6]
  7. ↑ The body was to be interred at St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, and there is a monument to Johnson at that location, but sources suggest his corpse did not arrive.[17]
  8. ↑ 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.[6]
  9. 1 2 3 4 Gravesite farthest to the south is that of James Moore Wayne in Savanah, Georgia; farthest east is Nathan Clifford, Portland, Maine; farthest north is Pierce Butler, St. Paul, Minnesota; and farthest west is Wiley Blount Rutledge, Boulder, Colorado.[6]
  10. ↑ Interred at this site in 1887, after initially being interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[6]
  11. ↑ Interred at this site in 1894, after initially being interred at Riverside Cemetery in Macon, Georgia.[53]
  12. 1 2 Edward Terry Sanford and William Howard Taft both died on March 8, 1930; Sanford's death occurred approximately five hours before Taft's.[74][75]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peralta, Eyder (February 16, 2016). "In Photos: A Short History Of Official Funerals For Supreme Court Justices". Washington, D.C.: NPR. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ NYCourts
  3. ↑ University of Groningen
  4. ↑ Scituate Burial Sites Survey, Scituate Historical Society
  5. ↑ University of Pennsylvania Archives
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Christensen, George A. "Here Lies the Supreme Court: Gravesites of the Justices". Yearbook 1983 Supreme Court Historical Society. Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court Historical Society (1983): 17–30. Archived from the original on September 3, 2005. Retrieved June 5, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ University of Groningen
  8. ↑ North Carolina History Project, John Locke Foundation
  9. ↑ Government of Maryland
  10. ↑ "Johnson, Thomas, (1732 – 1819)". Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress 1774 – Present. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  11. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  12. ↑ Maryland State Archives
  13. ↑ The First School Society
  14. ↑ Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington
  15. ↑ North Carolina History Project, John Locke Foundation
  16. ↑ John Marshall Foundation
  17. 1 2 The Supreme Court Compendium
  18. ↑ The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  19. ↑ A Walking Tour of Historic Frankfort
  20. ↑ Maryland State Archives
  21. ↑ Mount Auburn Cemetery
  22. ↑ The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  23. ↑ The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
  24. ↑ Dickinson College Archives
  25. ↑ US House of Representatives
  26. ↑ Georgia Historical Society
  27. ↑ The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  28. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  29. ↑ Chicago Law Journal
  30. ↑ US House of Representatives
  31. ↑ Stafford County Museum
  32. ↑ The Supreme Court Compendium
  33. ↑ National Governors Association
  34. ↑ The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  35. ↑ Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online
  36. ↑ Civil War High Commands
  37. ↑ Maine: An Encyclopedia
  38. ↑ Constitutional Law Reporter
  39. ↑ Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  40. ↑ McLean County Museum of History
  41. ↑ NNDB
  42. ↑ Library of Congress
  43. ↑ The New York Times
  44. ↑ Constitutional Law Reporter
  45. ↑ Constitutional Law Reporter
  46. ↑ Toledo's Woodlawn Cemetery
  47. ↑ Constitutional Law Reporter
  48. ↑ NNDB
  49. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  50. ↑ Mount Auburn Cemetery
  51. ↑ The Supreme Court Compendium
  52. ↑ United States House of Representatives
  53. ↑ "Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, (1825 – 1893)". Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress 1774 – Present. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  54. ↑ Graceland Cemetery in Chicago
  55. ↑ The Green Bag
  56. ↑ The Michigan Alumnus
  57. ↑ Allegheny Cemetery
  58. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  59. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  60. ↑ NNDB
  61. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  62. ↑ Arlington Cemetery
  63. ↑ NNDB
  64. ↑ Newburyport News
  65. ↑ Tennessee Encyclopedia
  66. ↑ Columbia Law School
  67. ↑ New Netherland Institute
  68. ↑ NNDB
  69. ↑ The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  70. ↑ Executive Disorder
  71. ↑ Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
  72. ↑ The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
  73. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  74. ↑ "William Howard Taft: President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court". www.arlingtoncemetery.net. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  75. ↑ "U.S. Justice Edward Sanford". Tennessee History Classroom Full History Stories. Tennessee On line History Magazine. Archived from the original on April 18, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  76. ↑ The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
  77. ↑ Six Feet Under
  78. ↑ NNDB
  79. ↑ Chesterfield Historical Society
  80. ↑ NNDB
  81. ↑ Historical Society of the New York Courts
  82. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  83. ↑ Historical Marker Project
  84. ↑ Mount Auburn Cemetery
  85. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  86. ↑ American Public School Law
  87. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  88. ↑ NNDB
  89. ↑ NNDB
  90. ↑ Harvard Square Library
  91. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  92. ↑ The Supreme Court Compendium
  93. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  94. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  95. ↑ The Supreme Court Compendium
  96. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  97. ↑ NNDB}
  98. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  99. ↑ Here Lies Colorado
  100. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  101. ↑ Washburn University School of Law
  102. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  103. ↑ Minnesota History Center
  104. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  105. ↑ Hollywood Cemetery
  106. ↑ Arlington National Cemetery
  107. ↑ Boston Herald
  108. ↑ "A Mystery Solved: Where is Scalia Buried?". nbcwashinghton.com. Washington D.C.: WRC-TV. September 5, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  109. ↑ Los Angeles Times
  110. ↑ CNN
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