Harlan Fiske Stone: A Man for All Seats

Harlan Fiske Stone joined the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on March 2, 1925. When he took his oaths of office to become the twelfth Chief Justice of the United States on July 3, 1941, he became the first—and, to date, only—Justice to sit in every seat on the Bench.

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