Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., son of the famous writer and physician by the same name. Holmes, a graduate of Harvard Law School, was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, and approved unanimously by the Senate on December 4 of that year. He served on the bench until 1932.
Holmes was well-known for his short, oft-quoted, and well-written opinions, which were frequently in dissent with the majority opinion. For this reason, his contemporaries referred to him as "The Great Dissenter," a label that has been applied to several justices over the years.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, who originally joined the Court in 1925, to succeed Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes upon his retirement at the end of the 1940-41 Term. Stone, born in 1872, was 69 years old when he became the 12th Chief Justice of the United States on July 3, 1941.
On April 22, 1946, Chief Justice Stone died of a stroke in open court, while presenting his dissenting opinion in Girouard v. United States, 328 US 61 (1946). The only Chief Justice to serve a shorter term was John Rutledge, who presided over the Court from July through December, 1795.
William Howard Taft, who was US President from 1909-1913, presided over the Supreme Court from 1921 until 1930.
which man served as chief justice of the united states supreme court
Fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall, who served from 1801 - 1835.
Warren Earl Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He served from 1969 to 1986.
Jimmy Carter, who was in office from 1977-1981, never had an opportunity to nominate a US Supreme Court justice.
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States (more commonly referred to as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court), who served from 1789 until he was elected Governor of New York in 1795.