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33 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 17 (2008)
Here Lies the Supreme Court: Revisited

handle is hein.journals/jspcth33 and id is 19 raw text is: Here Lies the Supreme Court: Revisited GEORGE A. CHRISTENSEN Show me the manner in which a nation or community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals. -William Ewart Gladstone I have always been more than a bit miffed with most American biographies. They al- most universally end, in my experience, with the death of their subject, and, for whatever reason, they almost never address the after- death events in the life being studied. I do not here mean any metaphysical considera- tions of an afterlife, but I have always felt that after-death experiences should be addressed as part of a person's true and complete bi- ography. Questions of funeral tributes or the lack thereof, the disposition and location of remains, and the degree of attention and care provided to a gravesite are, I think, indicative of many factors, including the prestige or es- teem in which the deceased was/is held by the family, the community and the nation. I have a modest personal collection of ref- erence and biographical material about the U. S. Supreme Court and its members, including what is, in my opinion, the gold standard ref- erence work, The Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court.' This Bible in the area of Supreme Court studies is loaded with reference data and information about the Court, but makes no mention-at least not in the edition I have at hand-of fi- nal resting places for the deceased Justices. Intrigued, I considered this to be a major omis- sion of significant biographical information. In 1981, therefore, I contacted both the Curator and the Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to obtain an accurate, complete, and up-to-date listing ofthe burial sites of Supreme Court Justices. I was informed by both officers at that time that such a source document of Supreme Court gravesite information did not exist.

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