Nominee & days to confirm from nomination:
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Lewis Powell —45
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg —42
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Sandra Day O'Connor —33 (*the vacancy)
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Harlan Stone —31
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Wiley Rutledge —28
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Harry Blackmun —27 (*wrote Roe v Wade)
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Arthur Goldberg —25
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Robert Jackson —25
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John Roberts —23 (*became Chief Justice)
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Mahlon Pitney —23
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John Paul Stevens —19
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Sherman Minton —19
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Warren Burger —17 (*became Chief Justice)
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Charles Whittaker —17
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Tom Clark —16
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Pierce Butler —16
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Harlan Stone —15 (*became Chief Justice)
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William Douglas —15
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Abe Fortas —14
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Fred Vinson —14 (*became Chief Justice)
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Frank Murphy —12
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Felix Frankfurter —12
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Owen Roberts —11
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Charles Hughes —10
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Stanley Reed —10
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John Clarke —10
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James McReynolds —10
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Benjamin Cardozo —9
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William Moody —9
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Byron White —8
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Charles Hughes —7 (*became Chief Justice)
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Horace Lurton —7
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Hugo Black —5
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Edward Sanford —5
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William Day —4
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Joseph Lamar —3
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Willis Devanter —3
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Oliver Holmes —2
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Harold Burton —1
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James Byrnes —0
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George Sutherland —0
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William Taft —0 (*became Chief Justice)
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Edward White —0
For full context, the 18 Justices that took longer than 46 days from nomination to confirmation by the Senate, since 1900:
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Loius Brandeis —125
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Potter Stewart —108
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Clarence Thomas —99
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William Rehnquist —89 (*became Chief Justice)
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Brett Kavanaugh —88
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Elena Kagan —87
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Antonin Scalia —85
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Samuel Alito —82
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Thurgood Marshall —78
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Stephen Breyer —73
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David Souter —69
- Sonia Sotomayor —66
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Neil Gorsuch —65
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Anthony Kennedy —65
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John Harlan —65
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William Brennan —64
- William Rehnquist —49
- Earl Warren —49 (*became Chief Justice
