In my latest Confirmation Tales post, I provide the answers to my New Year’s trivia questions. Here’s one:

Q. Who is the tallest justice in the history of the Supreme Court? Who is the shortest justice? And what is the difference in height between the two?
A. Horace Gray, who served on the Supreme Court from 1882 to 1902, is the tallest justice in Supreme Court history. He stood six feet six inches tall—a height he is said to have reached at the age of 13.
Alfred Moore, who had a short tenure (less than four years) on the Court from 1800 to 1804, is the shortest justice in Supreme Court history, at four feet five inches. (You might also remember Moore as a serious competitor for the distinction of least significant justice.)
So the difference in height between Gray and Moore is a remarkable 25 inches.

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