Jackson appointed John Catron to the bench in 1837 after Congress increased the size of the Supreme Court to nine seats.

The same year, President Martin Van Buren filled the other newly created seat with the appointment John McKinley.

Curtis resigned from the court following the 1857 Dred Scott decision, and President James Buchanan appointed Nathan Clifford as his replacement.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Noah Haynes Swayne (the first Republican-appointed justice in history), Samuel Freeman Miller, David Davis to replace them.

[5] Note: + denotes new seat Presidents during this court included Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln.