Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Harold Burton
Democratic appointee: Appointed by Harry S. Truman (D)
Served 1945–1958 · 14 terms
Confirmed by voice vote
Biography
Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Ideology over time
Burton and the 16 justices who overlapped with Burton, 1945–1958
- Harold Burton
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Burton sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Burton’s range across terms
Served alongside Burton
16 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Burton.
How Burton voted
Every argued case Burton took part in, newest first, with how Burton voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).