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Who nominated each US Supreme Court justice who was active in 1947?
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Seven of the nine justices active in 1947 were appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; the remaining two were appointed by President Harry S. Truman.
Hugo Black...................1937 - 1971.......Roosevelt
Stanley Forman Reed.....1938 - 1957.......Roosevelt
Felix Frankfurter............1939 - 1962.......Roosevelt
William O. Douglas........1939 - 1975.......Roosevelt
Frank Murphy................1940 - 1949.......Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson..........1941 - 1954.......Roosevelt
Wiley Blount Rutledge....1943 - 1949........Roosevelt
Harold Hitz Burton.........1945 - 1958........Truman
Fred M. Vinson..............1946 - 1953........Truman (Chief Justice)
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