Nominee & days to confirm from nomination:
• Lewis Powell —45
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg —42
• Sandra Day O'Connor —33 (*the vacancy)
• Harlan Stone —31
• Wiley Rutledge —28
• Harry Blackmun —27 (*wrote Roe v Wade)
• Arthur Goldberg —25
Robert Jackson —25
• John Roberts —23 (*became Chief Justice)
• Mahlon Pitney —23
• John Paul Stevens —19
• Sherman Minton —19
• Warren Burger —17 (*became Chief Justice)
• Charles Whittaker —17
• Tom Clark —16
• Pierce Butler —16
• Harlan Stone —15 (*became Chief Justice)
• William Douglas —15
• Abe Fortas —14
• Fred Vinson —14 (*became Chief Justice)
• Frank Murphy —12
• Felix Frankfurter —12
• Owen Roberts —11
• Charles Hughes —10
• Stanley Reed —10
• John Clarke —10
• James McReynolds —10
• Benjamin Cardozo —9
• William Moody —9
• Byron White —8
• Charles Hughes —7 (*became Chief Justice)
• Horace Lurton —7
• Hugo Black —5
• Edward Sanford —5
• William Day —4
• Joseph Lamar —3
• Willis Devanter —3
• Oliver Holmes —2
• Harold Burton —1
• James Byrnes —0
• George Sutherland —0
• William Taft —0 (*became Chief Justice)
• Edward White —0
(Yes, four SCOTUS Justices had SAME DAY nominations and confirmations by the Senate. And Byrnes never even attended law school before FDR put him on the court)
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