Justice Thomas is now the second longest serving justice in U.S. history

As of May 7, Justice Clarence Thomas is the second-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history, reported The New York Times. When he took his judicial oath on Oct. 23, 1991, nearly half of Americans alive today were not yet born. “Text” was a noun and not a verb. Justice Thomas now trails only William O. Douglas, who served 36 years before stepping down in 1975 (although much of his last year was overshadowed by a stroke that left him partly paralyzed and paranoid).

Justice Thomas is far from alone in his durability. Justice John Paul Stevens served nearly 35 years before he stepped down in 2010. In the past half-century, Justices William J. Brennan Jr., Hugo Black, William Rehnquist and Anthony Kennedy all joined the three-decade club. The average justice’s tenure is now more than 28 years, by far the longest among modern democracies.

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