• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1789 – 1795 · 6 yrsAppointed by George Washington

Career

• confirmed

  December 19

  1800 – present · 226 yrs

• Governor

  New York

  1795 – 1801 · 6 yrs

• Negotiator of Jay Treaty with Great Britain

  1794 – 1795 · 1 yr

• Secretary of foreign affairs under Articles of Confederation

  1784 – 1790 · 6 yrs

• Negotiator of Treaty of Paris with Great Britain

  1782 – 1783 · 1 yr

• U.S. minister plenipotentiary to Spain

  1779 – 1782 · 3 yrs

• President

  Second Continental Congress

  1778 – 1779 · 1 yr

• Chief justice

  Supreme Court of Judicature of New York

  1777 – 1778 · 1 yr

• Delegate

  Continental Congress

  1774 – 1778 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1768 – 1774 · 6 yrs