Since the Supreme Court of the United States was established in 1789, 114 persons have served on the court. Of these, several also served in the United States Congress, either before or after their tenure as a justice. Six were incumbent members of the Senate at the time of their appointment,^[1] while one—James Moore Wayne—was an incumbent member of the House of Representatives. The others had previously served in the Senate or the House or both. Additionally, one justice—David Davis—resigned from the Supreme Court to serve in the Senate.

There have been 14 Supreme Court justices with prior service in the Senate, and one with subsequent Senate service.^[2]

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Image	Senator	State	Senate service	Supreme Court service	I/F	Appointing president
	Hugo Black	Alabama	1927–1937	1937–1971	I	Roosevelt, F. D.
	Harold Hitz Burton	Ohio	1941–1945	1945–1958	I	Truman
	James F. Byrnes[lower-alpha 1]	South Carolina	1931–1941	1941–1942	I	Roosevelt, F. D.
	Oliver Ellsworth	Connecticut	1789–1796	1796–1800	I	Washington
	Edward Douglass White	Louisiana	1891–1894	1894–1921	I	Cleveland
	Levi Woodbury	New Hampshire	1825–1831; 1841–1845	1845–1851	I	Polk
	David Davis	Illinois	1877–1883	1862–1877	•[lower-alpha 2]	Lincoln
	Howell Edmunds Jackson	Tennessee	1881–1886	1893–1895	F	Harrison, B.
	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar[lower-alpha 1]	Mississippi	1877–1885	1888–1893	F	Cleveland
	Salmon P. Chase	Ohio	1849–1855; 1861–1861	1864–1873	F	Lincoln
	Stanley Matthews	Ohio	1877–1879	1881–1889	F	Garfield
	John McKinley[lower-alpha 1]	Alabama	1826–1831; 1837–1837	1838–1852	F	Van Buren
	Sherman Minton	Indiana	1935–1941	1949–1956	F	Truman
	George Sutherland[lower-alpha 1]	Utah	1905–1917	1922–1938	F	Harding
	William Paterson	New Jersey	1789–1790	1793–1806	F	Washington

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There have been 17 Supreme Court justices with prior service in the House of Representatives.^[3]

• List of people who have served in all three branches of the United States federal government