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    GRANT’S APPOINTMENTS BRING NUMBER OF JUSTICES BACK TO NINE
			Timelines: History

    April 10, 1869

    President Ulysses S. Grant authorized the addition of two Supreme Court justices, bringing the official total to nine, where it has stayed ever since.