Presidents Jimmy Carter, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor are the only U.S. Presidents to date who did not make any appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Harrison (1841) did not make any appointments to the Supreme Court prior to dying of pneumonia 31 days after delivering the longest-ever presidential inaugural address; President Taylor (1849 -1850) died suddenly 16 months into his term of office without making any Supreme Court appointment. During President Jimmy Carter’s four years in office (1977 to 1980), none of the Supreme Court Justices left the Court.