TABLE 1 SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS MADE BY PRESIDENTS AT THE END OF THEIR TERM IN OFFICE Nominations made in the same calendar year as the election of their successor (15 nominations; 6 confirmed): John Adams​
(date of successor’s election: October 31­December 3, 1800) 1. John Jay (nominated December 18, 1800)(after election) Confirmed but Declined John Quincy Adams​
(date of successor’s election: October 21­December 2, 1828) 2. *John J. Crittenden (December 17, 1828)(after election) Postponed John Tyler​
(date of successor’s election: November 1­December 4, 1844) 3. *John C. Spencer (January 9, 1844)
Rejected 21­26 4. *Reuben Walworth (March 13, 1844)
Tabled 27­20 and withdrawn 5. *Edward King (June 5, 1844)
Postponed 29­18 6. *John C. Spencer (June 17, 1844)
Withdrawn 7. *Reuben Walworth (June 17, 1844)
No action Millard Fillmore​
(date of successor’s election: November 2, 1852) 8. *Edward A. Bradford (August 16, 1852)
No action Rutherford B. Hayes​
(date of successor’s election: November 2, 1880) 9. William B. Woods (December 15, 1880)(after election) Confirmed 39­8 Grover Cleveland​
(date of successor’s election: November 6, 1888) 10. Melville W. Fuller (April 30, 1888)(after election)
Confirmed 41­20 Benjamin Harrison​
(date of successor’s election: November 8, 1892) 11. George Shiras, Jr. (July 19, 1892)
Confirmed (voice vote) William Howard Taft​
(date of successor’s election: November 5, 1912) 12. Mahlon Pitney (February 19, 1912)
Confirmed 50­26 Herbert Hoover​
(date of successor’s election: November 8, 1932) 13. Benjamin Cardozo (February 15, 1932)
Confirmed (voice vote) Lyndon Baines Johnson​
(date of successor’s election: November 5, 1968) 14. *Abe Fortas (June 26, 1968)
Withdrawn 15. *Homer Thornberry (June 26, 1968)
Withdrawn Nominations made by presidents in the calendar year prior to the election, but within 365 days of the election of their successor (6 nominations; 6 confirmed): Andrew Jackson​
(date of successor’s election: November 3­7, 1836) 16. Roger B. Taney (December 28, 1835)
Confirmed (29­15) 17. Philip P. Barbour (December 28, 1835)
Confirmed (30­11) Millard Fillmore​
(date of successor’s election: November 2, 1852) 18. Benjamin R. Curtis (December 11, 1851)
Confirmed (voice vote) (recess appointment on September 22, 1851) Grover Cleveland​
(date of successor’s election: November 6, 1888) 19. Lucius Lamar (December 6, 1887)
Confirmed 32­28 Gerald R. Ford​
(date of successor’s election: November 2, 1976) 20. John Paul Stevens (November 28, 1975)
Confirmed 98­0 Ronald Reagan​
(date of successor’s election: November 8, 1988) 21. Anthony Kennedy (November 30, 1987)
Confirmed 97­0 Nominations by lame­duck presidents in the calendar year after the election of their successor (11 nominations; 6 confirmed): #​
John Adams​
(date of successor’s election: October 31­December 3, 1800) 22. John Marshall (January 20, 1801)(after election)
Confirmed (voice vote) Andrew Jackson​
(date of successor’s election: November 3­7, 1836) 23. William Smith (March 3, 1837)(after election)+
Confirmed (23­18)/declined 24. John Catron (March 3, 1837)(after election)+
Confirmed (28­15) #​
Martin Van Buren​
(date of successor’s election: October 30­December 2, 1840) 25. Peter V. Daniel (February 26, 1841)(after election)
Confirmed 25­5 #​
John Tyler​
(date of successor’s election: November 1­December 4, 1844) 26. Samuel Nelson (February 4, 1845)(after election)
Confirmed (voice vote) 27. *John M. Read (February 7, 1845)(after election)
No action #​
Millard Fillmore​
(date of successor’s election: November 2, 1852) 28. *George E. Badger (January 3, 1853)(after election)
Withdrawn 29. *William C. Micou (February 14, 1853(after election) No action #​
James Buchanan​
(date of successor’s election: November 6, 1860) 30. *Jeremiah S. Black (February 5, 1861)(after election) Motion to consider rejected (25­26) Rutherford B. Hayes​
(date of successor’s election: November 2, 1880) 31. *Stanley Matthews (January 26, 1881)(after election) No action++ #​
Benjamin Harrison​
(date of successor’s election: November 8, 1892) 32. Howell E. Jackson (February 2, 1893)(after election) Confirmed (voice vote) _____________________________ *Nomination not successful. +Nominated by Jackson the last day he was in office; confirmed after Jackson left office. #Succeeded by a president of a different political party. ++Matthews was re­nominated by James A. Garfield and subsequently confirmed. Data drawn from U.S. Senate, “Supreme Court Nominations, 1789­present,” http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm​
and “List of Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nominations_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_State
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