List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States facts for kids

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 U.S. Supreme Court justice burial sites is Virginia with 20 – 14 of which are at Arlington National Cemetery. Since it was established in 1789, 114 persons have served as a justice (associate justice or chief justice) on the Supreme Court; of these, 103 have died. The first death of a justice was that of James Wilson on August 21, 1798, and the most recent was that of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020. William Howard Taft, who was chief justice from 1921 to 1930 after serving as President of the United States from 1909 to 1913, is the only justice for whom a state funeral has been held.

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, William Rehnquist, John Rutledge, Harlan F. Stone, and Edward Douglass White. 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

OJ	Justice	Date of death	Burial place	City	State	Site image
1	CJ John Jay	014 May 17, 1829	Jay Estate Cemetery	Rye	New York
2	CJ John Rutledge	003 July 23, 1800	St. Michael's Churchyard	Charleston	South Carolina
3	William Cushing	007 September 13, 1810	Cushing Cemetery	Scituate	Massachusetts
4	James Wilson	001 August 21, 1798	Christ Church North Garden	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
5	John Blair	004 August 31, 1800	Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery	Williamsburg	Virginia
6	James Iredell	002 October 20, 1799	Hayes Plantation Cemetery	Edenton	North Carolina
7	Thomas Johnson	010 October 26, 1819	Mount Olivet Cemetery	Frederick	Maryland
8	William Paterson	005 September 9, 1806	Albany Rural Cemetery	Menands	New York
9	Samuel Chase	009 June 19, 1811	Old Saint Paul's Cemetery	Baltimore	Maryland
10	CJ Oliver Ellsworth	006 November 26, 1807	Palisado Cemetery	Windsor	Connecticut
11	Bushrod Washington	015 November 26, 1829	Mount Vernon Burial Ground	Mount Vernon	Virginia
12	Alfred Moore	008 October 15, 1810	St. Philip's Church Cemetery	Smithville Township	North Carolina
13	CJ John Marshall	017 July 6, 1835	Shockoe Hill Cemetery	Richmond	Virginia
14	William Johnson	016 August 24, 1834	Unknown for certain	Charleston	South Carolina
15	Henry Brockholst Livingston	011 March 18, 1823	Green-Wood Cemetery	New York	New York
16	Thomas Todd	012 February 7, 1826	Frankfort Cemetery	Frankfort	Kentucky
17	Gabriel Duvall	020 March 6, 1844	Marietta Burial Grounds	Glenn Dale	Maryland
18	Joseph Story	022 September 10, 1845	Mount Auburn Cemetery	Cambridge	Massachusetts
19	Smith Thompson	019 December 18, 1843	Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery	Poughkeepsie	New York
20	Robert Trimble	013 August 25, 1828	Paris Cemetery	Paris	Kentucky
21	John McLean	026 April 4, 1861	Spring Grove Cemetery	Cincinnati	Ohio
22	Henry Baldwin	021 April 21, 1844	Greendale Cemetery	Meadville	Pennsylvania
23	James Moore Wayne	029 July 5, 1867	Laurel Grove Cemetery	Savannah	Georgia
24	CJ Roger B. Taney	027 October 12, 1864	St. John the Evangelist Cemetery	Frederick	Maryland
25	Philip Pendleton Barbour	018 February 25, 1841	Congressional Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
26	John Catron	028 May 30, 1865	Mount Olivet Cemetery	Nashville	Tennessee
27	John McKinley	024 July 19, 1852	Cave Hill Cemetery	Louisville	Kentucky
28	Peter Vivian Daniel	025 May 31, 1860	Hollywood Cemetery	Richmond	Virginia
29	Samuel Nelson	032 December 13, 1873	Lakewood Cemetery	Cooperstown	New York
30	Levi Woodbury	023 September 4, 1851	Harmony Grove Cemetery	Portsmouth	New Hampshire
31	Robert Cooper Grier	030 September 25, 1870	West Laurel Hill Cemetery	Bala Cynwyd	Pennsylvania
32	Benjamin Robbins Curtis	033 September 15, 1874	Mount Auburn Cemetery	Cambridge	Massachusetts
33	John Archibald Campbell	040 March 12, 1889	Green Mount Cemetery	Baltimore	Maryland
34	Nathan Clifford	034 July 25, 1881	Evergreen Cemetery	Portland	Maine
35	Noah Haynes Swayne	035 June 8, 1884	Oak Hill Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
36	Samuel Freeman Miller	042 October 13, 1890	Oakland Cemetery	Keokuk	Iowa
37	David Davis	037 June 26, 1886	Evergreen Memorial Cemetery	Bloomington	Illinois
38	Stephen Johnson Field	048 April 9, 1899	Rock Creek Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
39	CJ Salmon P. Chase	031 May 7, 1873	Spring Grove Cemetery	Cincinnati	Ohio
40	William Strong	047 August 19, 1895	Charles Evans Cemetery	Reading	Pennsylvania
41	Joseph P. Bradley	043 January 22, 1892	Mount Pleasant Cemetery	Newark	New Jersey
42	Ward Hunt	036 March 24, 1886	Forest Hill Cemetery	Utica	New York
43	CJ Morrison Waite	039 March 23, 1888	Woodlawn Cemetery	Toledo	Ohio
44	John Marshall Harlan	053 October 14, 1911	Rock Creek Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
45	William Burnham Woods	038 May 14, 1887	Cedar Hill Cemetery	Newark	Ohio
46	Stanley Matthews	041 March 22, 1889	Spring Grove Cemetery	Cincinnati	Ohio
47	Horace Gray	049 September 15, 1902	Mount Auburn Cemetery	Cambridge	Massachusetts
48	Samuel Blatchford	045 July 7, 1893	Green-Wood Cemetery	New York	New York
49	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II	044 January 23, 1893	Oxford Memorial Cemetery	Oxford	Mississippi
50	CJ Melville Fuller	052 July 4, 1910	Graceland Cemetery	Chicago	Illinois
51	David Josiah Brewer	051 March 28, 1910	Mount Muncie Cemetery	Lansing	Kansas
52	Henry Billings Brown	054 September 4, 1913	Elmwood Cemetery	Detroit	Michigan
53	George Shiras Jr.	060 August 2, 1924	Allegheny Cemetery	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
54	Howell Edmunds Jackson	046 August 8, 1895	Mount Olivet Cemetery	Nashville	Tennessee
55	CJ Edward Douglass White	058 May 19, 1921	Oak Hill Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
56	Rufus W. Peckham	050 October 24, 1909	Albany Rural Cemetery	Menands	New York
57	Joseph McKenna	062 November 21, 1926	Mount Olivet Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
58	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	065 March 6, 1935	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
59	William R. Day	059 July 9, 1923	West Lawn Cemetery	Canton	Ohio
60	William Henry Moody	057 July 2, 1917	South Byfield Cemetery	Georgetown	Massachusetts
61	Horace Harmon Lurton	055 July 12, 1914	Greenwood Cemetery	Clarksville	Tennessee
62	CJ Charles Evans Hughes	074 August 27, 1948	Woodlawn Cemetery	New York	New York
63	Willis Van Devanter	068 February 8, 1941	Rock Creek Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
64	Joseph Rucker Lamar	056 January 2, 1916	Summerville Cemetery	Augusta	Georgia
65	Mahlon Pitney	061 December 9, 1924	Evergreen Cemetery	Morristown	New Jersey
66	James Clark McReynolds	073 August 24, 1946	Glenwood Cemetery	Elkton	Kentucky
67	Louis Brandeis	069 October 5, 1941	Louis D. Brandeis School of Law	Louisville	Kentucky
68	John Hessin Clarke	071 March 22, 1945	Lisbon Cemetery	Lisbon	Ohio
69	CJ William Howard Taft	064 March 8, 1930	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
70	George Sutherland	070 July 18, 1942	Cedar Hill Cemetery	Suitland	Maryland
71	Pierce Butler	067 November 16, 1939	Calvary Cemetery	Saint Paul	Minnesota
72	Edward Terry Sanford	063 March 8, 1930	Greenwood Cemetery	Knoxville	Tennessee
73	CJ Harlan F. Stone	072 April 22, 1946	Rock Creek Cemetery	Washington	District of Columbia
74	Owen Roberts	079 May 17, 1955	St. Andrew's Cemetery	West Vincent Township	Pennsylvania
75	Benjamin N. Cardozo	066 July 9, 1938	Beth Olam Cemetery	New York	New York
76	Hugo Black	083 September 25, 1971	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
77	Stanley Forman Reed	090 April 2, 1980	Maysville Cemetery	Maysville	Kentucky
78	Felix Frankfurter	081 February 22, 1965	Mount Auburn Cemetery	Cambridge	Massachusetts
79	William O. Douglas	089 January 19, 1980	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
80	Frank Murphy	075 July 19, 1949	Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic Cemetery	Sand Beach Township (Harbor Beach)	Michigan
81	James F. Byrnes	085 April 9, 1972	Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery	Columbia	South Carolina
82	Robert H. Jackson	078 October 9, 1954	Maple Grove Cemetery	Frewsburg	New York
83	Wiley Blount Rutledge	076 September 10, 1949	Green Mountain Cemetery	Boulder	Colorado
84	Harold Hitz Burton	080 October 28, 1964	Highland Park Cemetery	Highland Hills	Ohio
85	CJ Fred M. Vinson	077 September 8, 1953	Pine Hill Cemetery	Louisa	Kentucky
86	Tom C. Clark	088 June 13, 1977	Restland Memorial Park	Dallas	Texas
87	Sherman Minton	082 April 9, 1965	Holy Trinity Cemetery	New Albany	Indiana
88	CJ Earl Warren	087 July 9, 1974	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
89	John Marshall Harlan	084 December 29, 1971	Emmanuel Episcopal Church Cemetery	Weston	Connecticut
90	William J. Brennan Jr.	096 July 24, 1997	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
91	Charles Evans Whittaker	086 November 26, 1973	Forest Hill Cemetery	Kansas City	Missouri
92	Potter Stewart	092 December 7, 1985	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
93	Byron White	099 April 15, 2002	St. Johns Cathedral	Denver	Colorado
94	Arthur Goldberg	093 January 19, 1990	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
95	Abe Fortas	091 April 5, 1982	Cremated, not buried	zz—	zz—
96	Thurgood Marshall	094 January 24, 1993	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
97	CJ Warren E. Burger	095 June 25, 1995	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
98	Harry Blackmun	098 March 4, 1999	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
99	Lewis F. Powell, Jr.	097 August 25, 1998	Hollywood Cemetery	Richmond	Virginia
100	CJ William Rehnquist	100 September 3, 2005	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
101	John Paul Stevens	102 July 16, 2019	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia
103	Antonin Scalia	101 February 13, 2016	Fairfax Memorial Park	Fairfax	Virginia
107	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	103 September 18, 2020	Arlington National Cemetery	Arlington	Virginia