There were two Chief Justices during Grant's term of office. When President Grant was elected, Chief Justice Salmon Chase was in office. Chase died in May 1873, and was succeeded by Morrison Remick Waite in 1874.
The president would be tried by the senate, and the chief justice of the supreme court would be the judge.
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The Chief Justice of the US does nothing special in the election process. By tradition, he administers the presidential oath when the president takes office.
William Renquist
Samuel Chase was never Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Chase is best known as the first and only US Supreme Court justice in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives (1804). He was acquitted during his Senate trial in 1805 and remained on the Court until his death in 1811.Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, ironically, presided over the first Senate Presidential impeachment trial when Andrew Johnson was brought up on charges of violating the Tenure of Office Act in 1868.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the US Supreme Court during the War of 1812.President Adams appointed John Marshall in 1801; he served until his death in 1835.
John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Gibbons vs Ogden Case. This landmark decision invoked that the power to regulate interstate trade was granted via the constitution.
According to the most recent statistics, the average tenure of a US Supreme Court justice is currently 25.5 years.
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no, but he made a few appointments to the lower courts which are where the supreme court justices are often taken from.
Chief Justice John Marshall, who presided over the US Supreme Court from 1801-1835, had the greatest influence over the Judicial Branch's role in government.