QUESTIONS:
1. A just-completed biography of the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas tells how close he came to getting the Democratic vice presidential nomination in both 1944 and '48. Who was the last sitting Supreme Court justice to be on a national party ticket?
2. Who was the last Supreme Court justice to have run for any elective office after leaving the bench?
3. Who is the only justice of the present Supreme Court to have held elective office?
4. Who is the last former U.S. Senator to have served on the Supreme Court?
5. Who is the last former governor to have served on the Supreme Court?
ANSWERS:
1. Charles Evans Hughes, who resigned from the bench to become the Republican nominee for President in 1916, and was later returned to the Supreme Court as chief justice in 1930.
2. Arthur J. Goldberg, justice from 1962-65, who became the Democratic nominee for governor of New York in 1970.
3. Sandra Day O'Connor, who was a Republican state senator in Arizona from 1968-75.
4. Hugo Black, Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1926-37, and justice from 1937 until 1971.
5. Earl Warren, Republican governor of California from 1942-53 and chief justice from 1953-69.
