THE WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST COURT - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED 1958 CO-SIGNED BY: ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BYRON R. WHITE, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE DAVID H. SOUTER, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HARRY A. BLACKMUN, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS - HFSID 202275

REHNQUIST COURT, CO-SIGNED BY: WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST, ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, BYRON R. WHITE, CLARENCE THOMAS, HARRY A. BLACKMUN, DAVID SOUTER and JOHN PAUL STEVENS
First Day Cover of the first Supreme Court Chief Justice signed by seven Justices of the Rehnquist court, including Chief Justice Rehnquist
First Day Cover signed: "William H Rehnquist", "Anthony Kennedy", "Byron White", "Clarence Thomas", "Harry A. Blackmun", "David Souter" and "John Paul Stevens", 6½x3½. FDC honoring Chief Justice John Jay, Washington, D.C., December 12, 1958, 15-cent stamp affixed, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. These Justices all served together on the Rehnquist court. Kennedy, Stevens, Souter and Thomas are still Justices. REHNQUIST (1924-2005) was appointed Associate Justice by President Richard M. Nixon on January 7, 1972. President Ronald Reagan appointed Rehnquist as Chief Justice on September 26, 1986; he served until his death in 2005. As Chief Justice, Rehnquist presided at President Clinton's impeachment trial in 1999. WHITE (1917-2002), appointed Associate Justice by President John F. Kennedy, served from 1962-1993. BLACKMUN (1908-1999), appointed by President Richard Nixon in 1970, served as an Associate Justice until retiring in 1994. KENNEDY, born in 1936, was appointed Associate Justice by President Reagan in 1988. STEVENS, born in 1920,was appointed Associate Justice by President Gerald Ford in 1975. SOUTER (1939-2025),was appointed Associate Justice by President George Bush in 1990. THOMAS, born in 1948, was appointed Associate Justice by President Bush in 1991 to fill the seat of retiring Thurgood Marshall (the first Black American on the Supreme Court). Lightly toned and rippled, otherwise in fine condition.