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  • Earth Day Round Up from Across the Administration

    It’s been a busy Earth Day here at the White House and around the Administration.  Yesterday Vice President Biden kicked off the Administration’s Earth Day Celebration by announcing $452 million in Recovery Act funding to support a “Retrofit Ramp-Up.” This program will create thousands of jobs and allow these communities to retrofit hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses while testing out innovative strategies that can be adopted all over the country.  President Obama also issued a Presidential Proclamation on Earth Day calling on Americans to join in the spirit of the first Earth Day forty years ago to take action in their communities to make our planet cleaner and healthier.

    This afternoon, Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, hosted a live chat on WhiteHouse.gov to answer your questions about how the Administration is working to improve the environment and build a clean energy economy that supports the jobs of the future.  This evening, the President hosted an Earth Day reception in the Rose Garden at the White House where he discussed some of the challenges that lie ahead in achieving a clean energy economy:

    I think we all understand that the task ahead is daunting; that the work ahead will not be easy and it’s not going to happen overnight.  It’s going to take your leadership.  It’s going to take all of your ideas.  And it will take all of us coming together in the spirit of Earth Day -- not only on Earth Day but every day -- to make the dream of a clean energy economy and a clean world a reality.

    Over on the Social Innovation and Civic Participation blog, guest blogger and former Peace Corps volunteer Kelly McCormack shares here story about a community solution to an environmental problem in Gautemala.

    Finally, President Obama’s cabinet and other senior government officials fanned out across the country as part of the Administration’s 5-day celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  From live chats, to announcing major investments in renewable energy, to appearing on the David Letterman show - all-in-all a busy day!

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    • HOUSE MEMBERS SUPREME COURT

    There have been 17 former House members who have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Among this number, 2 were Chief Justices of the United States. This chart lists these individuals, along with information about the other public offices they held. Those who served as Chief Justice of the United States are identified in bold.

    In only one case was a House member appointed to the Supreme Court directly: James M. Wayne in 1835.

    Individual (House Service)

    Supreme Court Service

    Public Career

    Fred M. Vinson, Democrat of Kentucky (1924-1929, 1931-1938)

    Chief Justice, 1946-1953

    Secretary of the Treasury (1945-1946)

    Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (1945)

    Federal Loan Administrator (1945)

    Director, Office of Economic Stabilization (1943-1945)

    U.S. Court of Appeals (1938-1943)

    Commonwealth of Kentucky attorney (1921-1924)

    City attorney, Louisa, Kentucky (1914-1915)

    James F. Byrnes, Democrat of South Carolina (1911-1925)

    Associate Justice, 1941-1942

    Governor of South Carolina (1951-1955)

    Secretary of State (1945-1947)

    Director, Office of War Mobilization (1943-1945)

    Senator from South Carolina (1931-1941)

    George Sutherland, Republican of Utah (1901-1903)

    Associate Justice, 1922-1938

    Senator from Utah (1905-1917)

    Utah state senate (1897-1901)

    Mahlon Pitney, Republican of New Jersey (1895-1899)

    Associate Justice, 1912-1922

    Chancellor of New Jersey (1908-1912)

    New Jersey state supreme court (1901-1908)

    New Jersey state senate (1899-1901)

    William H. Moody, Republican of Massachusetts (1895-1902)

    Associate Justice, 1906-1910

    Attorney General (1904-1906)

    Secretary of the Navy (1902-1904)

    District attorney, eastern district of Massachusetts (1890-1895)

    City solicitor, Haverhill, Massachusetts (1888-1890)

    Joseph McKenna, Republican of California (1885-1892)

    Associate Justice, 1898-1925

    Attorney General (1897-1898)

    U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1892-1897)

    California state house of representatives (1875-1876)

    District attorney for Solano County, California (1866-1868)

    Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Democrat of Mississippi (1857-1860, 1873-1877)

    Associate Justice, 1888-1893

    Secretary of the Interior (1885-1888)

    Senator from Mississippi (1877-1885)

    Officer, CSA (1861-1865)

    Georgia state house of representatives (1853)

    William Strong, Democrat of Pennsylvania (1847-1851)

    Associate Justice, 1870-1880

    Associate justice supreme court of Pennsylvania (1857-1868)

    Nathan Clifford, Democrat of Maine (1839-1843)

    Associate Justice, 1858-1881

    Commissioner to Mexico (1848-1849)

    Attorney General (1846-1848)

    Maine state attorney general (1834-1838)

    Maine state house of representatives (1830-1834)

    John McKinley, Jacksonian of Alabama (1833-1835)

    Associate Justice, 1838-1852

    Senator from Alabama (1826-1831, 1837)

    Alabama state house of representatives (1820-1822, 1831, 1836)

    Philip P. Barbour, Jeffersonian Republican/Jacksonian of Virginia (1814-1825, 1827-1830), Speaker of the House (1821-1823)

    Associate Justice, 1836-1841

    U.S. district court judge (1830-1836)

    General court of Virginia (1825-1827)

    Virginia state house of delegates (1812-1814)

    James M. Wayne, Jacksonian of Georgia (1829-1835)

    Associate Justice, 1835-1867

    Judge, Savannah superior court (1822-1828)

    Judge, Savannah court of common pleas, Georgia (1820-1822)

    Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1817-1819)

    Georgia state house of representatives (1815-1816)

    Henry Baldwin, Jeffersonian Republican of Pennsylvania (1817-1822)

    Associate Justice, 1830-1844

     

    John McLean, Jeffersonian Republican of Ohio (1813-1816)

    Associate Justice, 1830-1861

    Postmaster General (1823-1829)

    Commissioner, General Land Office (1822-1823)

    Ohio state supreme court (1816-1822)

    Joseph Story, Jeffersonian Republican of Massachusetts (1808-1809)

    Associate Justice, 1812-1845

    Massachusetts state house of representatives (1805-1807, 1811-1812)

    John Marshall, Federalist of Virginia (1799-1800)

    Chief Justice, 1801-1835

    Secretary of State (1800-1801)

    Special commissioner to France (1797, 1798)

    Virginia state executive council (1782-1795)

    Virginia state house of delegates (1780, 1782-1788)

    Gabriel Duvall, Republican of Maryland (1794-1796)

    Associate Justice, 1811-1835

    Chief justice general court of Maryland (1796-1802) Comptroller of the Treasury (1802-1811)
     
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