Justices of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, 1767-2002(May be incomplete!) ThomasWilling as of 1767GeorgeBryan 1780-91WilliamBradford as of 1791-94EdwardShippen 1791ThomasSmith 1794-1809JohnB. Gibson as of 1816-27JohnTod 1827JohnRoss 1830-34ThomasBurnside 1845-51RichardCoulter 1846-52GeorgeChambers as of 1851JohnB. Gibson as of 1851-53WalterH. Lowrie as of 1851-57GeorgeW. Woodward as of 1852-67JamesArmstrong as of 1857WilliamStrong 1857-68JamesThompson 1857GaylordChurch as of 1858JohnM. Read as of 1858-72DanielAgnew as of 1863-79GeorgeSharswood 1868-82SilasM. Clark 1889-91HenryGreen as of 1889-99J.Brewster McCollum 1889-1900JamesT. Mitchell as of 1889-1903JamesP. Sterrett 1889-93HenryW. Williams as of 1889-96ChristopherHeydrick 1891-92JohnDean 1893-96SamuelG. Thompson 1893-94D.Newlin Fell 1894-1910J.Hay Brown 1899-1921RobertS. Frazer 1915-36EmoryA. Walling 1917-32JohnW. Kephart 1919-40AlexanderSimpson, Jr. 1919-35WilliamI. Schaffer 1921-43Robertvon Moschzisker 1921-30SylvesterBaker Sadler 1921-31GeorgeW. Maxey 1930-50JamesB. Drew 1931-52WilliamB. Linn 1932-43H.Edgar Barnes 1935-40HoraceStern 1936-56MarionD. Patterson 1940-43WilliamM. Parker 1940-43AllenM. Stearne 1943CharlesA. Jones as of 1945-61JohnC. Bell, Jr. as of 1950-72ThomasMcKeen Chidsey 1950-58MichaelA. Musmanno as of 1951HerbertB. Cohen 1957-70BenjaminR. Jones 1957-MichaelJ. Eagen 1960-RobertN. C. Nix, Jr. 1971-96WilliamD. Hutchinson as of 1982-87JohnA. Maher 1996RonCastille as of 2002 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1791 Jan 27:GeorgeBryan, died in office. 1809 Mar 31:ThomasSmith, died in office. 1851 Mar 25:ThomasBurnside, died in office. 1852 Apr 21:RichardCoulter, died in office. 1857:JosephJ. Lewis (Rep), defeated. 1868:WilliamStrong, resigned. 1891 Nov 21:SilasM. Clark, died in office. 1893 Mar 3:SamuelG. Thompson, appointed. 1916 Nov 7:EmoryA. Walling, elected;CharlesPalmer, defeated. 1918 Nov 5:JohnW. Kephart, elected;AlexanderSimpson, Jr., elected;CharlesB. Lenahan, defeated;EdwardJ. Fox, defeated;EdwinM. Abbott, defeated;JosephW. Bouton, defeated;JosephJ. Kintner, defeated;HenryBudd, defeated;AugustusV. Dively, defeated. 1921:EugeneC. Bonniwell (Dem), defeated. 1930 Nov 4:GeorgeW. Maxey (Rep), elected;HenryC. Niles (Dem), defeated;JohnW. Slayton (Socialist), defeated;CharlotteF. Jones (Communist), defeated;CharlesPalmer (Prohibition), defeated. 1930 Nov 24:Robertvon Moschzisker, resigned;GeorgeW. Maxey, appointed. 1931 Mar 1:SylvesterBaker Sadler, died in office. 1931 Sep 28:JamesB. Drew, appointed. 1932 Apr 26:EdwardC. Higbee (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1932 Apr 26:WilliamB. Linn (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1932 Apr 26:CharlesPalmer (Prohibition), nominated unopposed. 1932 Apr 26:JohnW. Slayton (Socialist), nominated unopposed. 1932 Nov 8:WilliamB. Linn (Rep & Liberal), elected;EdwardC. Higbee (Dem), defeated;JohnW. Slayton (Socialist), defeated;CharlesPalmer (Prohibition), defeated;CharlotteF. Jones (Communist), defeated. 1935 Jul 24:AlexanderSimpson, Jr., died in office. 1935 Aug 12:H.Edgar Barnes, appointed. 1940 Oct 6:H.Edgar Barnes, died in office. 1940 Dec 11:WilliamM. Parker, appointed. 1956 Apr 24:HerbertB. Cohen (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1956 Apr 24:BenjaminR. Jones (Rep), nominated;HenryX. O'Brien (Rep), defeated in primary. 1956 Nov 6:BenjaminR. Jones (Rep), elected;HerbertB. Cohen (Dem), elected. 1958 Apr 19:ThomasMcKeen Chidsey, died in office. 1958 Nov 4:CurtisBok (Dem), elected;RobertE. Woodside (Rep), defeated. 1962 Nov 6:SamuelJ. Roberts (Rep), elected;EarlS. Keim (Dem), defeated. | |