Supreme Court Justice

Lawyer, diplomat, Continental congressman, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; 1745—1829.
Soldier, lawyer, politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; 1755—1835.
South Carolina governor, second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; 1739—1800.
Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Supreme Court justice; 1742—98.

Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.

Richard Brookhiser
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)