Until his nomination was rejected, John Rutledge briefly succeeded this first chief justice
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... [DOC] [TLE] Legal history highlight: Justices who left the Court for better ... [PAR] Mar 25, 2016 ... Justice John Rutledge departed for South Carolina's Court of Common ... served 
briefly), but the Senate rejected his formal nomination months later  [p]erhaps 
the first instance in which the Senate rejected a nominee on ... President Lyndon 
Johnson convinced Goldberg to succeed the late ambassador.