According to court records, 35 of the 111 US Supreme Court retired. All retirements occurred after 1869, when Congress granted full retirement pay and benefits for Supreme Court justices age 70 or older with ten or more years in the federal judiciary. Prior to the Judiciary Act of 1869, most justices died in office, although seven resigned for personal reasons. None of these justices was labeled "retired" prior to legislation of retirement benefits, even if the justice never worked again.
Samuel Nelson.......................1845-1872................Tyler
Robert Cooper Grier................1846-1870.................Polk
Noah Haynes Swayne..............1862-1881................Lincoln
Stephen Johnson Field.............1863-1897................Lincoln
William Strong.......................1870-1880.................Grant
Ward Hunt.............................1873-1882................Grant
Henry Billings Brown...............1891-1906.................Harrison
George Shiras, Jr....................1892-1903.................Harrison
Joseph McKenna.....................1898-1925.................McKinley
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.........1902-1932................T. Roosevelt
William R. Day........................1903-1922................T. Roosevelt
William Henry Moody...............1906-1910................T. Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes (CJ).......1930-1941................Hoover (Taft appointed Associate Justice, 1910-1916)
Willis Van Devanter.................1911-1937................Taft
James Clark McReynolds..........1914-1941................Wilson
Louis Brandeis........................1916-1939................Wilson
George Sutherland..................1922-1938................Harding
Hugo Black............................1937-1971................F. Roosevelt
Stanley Forman Reed..............1938-1957................F. Roosevelt
Felix Frankfurter.....................1939-1962................F. Roosevelt
William O. Douglas.................1937-1975................F. Roosevelt
Harold Hitz Burton..................1945-1958................Truman
Tom C. Clark..........................1949-1967................Truman
Sherman Minton.....................1949-1956................Truman
Earl Warren (CJ)....................1953-1969.................Eisenhower
John Marshall Harlan II...........1955-1971.................Eisenhower
William J. Brennan, Jr.............1956-1990.................Eisenhower
Potter Stewart.......................1958-1981.................Eisenhower
Byron White..........................1962-1993.................Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall..................1967-1991................Johnson
Warren Burger (CJ)................1969-1986.................Nixon
Harry Blackmun.....................1970-1994.................Nixon
Lewis F. Powell.......................1972-1987.................Nixon
Sandra Day O'Connor..............1981-2006.................Reagan
David Hackett Souter..............1990-2009.................GHW Bush
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Forty-nine justices died in office. If you mean how many US Supreme Court justices have died in open court, only one. Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on April 22, 1946, while reading aloud from his dissenting opinion on Girouard v. United States, 328 U.S. 61 (1946).
With the exception of Chief Justice Stone, the follow justices died while holding office, but not while in court.
The Court consists of a Chief Justice and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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Active justices may hire four law clerks each; retired justices are entitled to one law clerk.
Nine Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. There have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court's history.
There are 7 justices on the MN Supreme Court.
Answerthere are currently seven.