Member states of NATO members and three former Yugoslav republics) from 12 March 1999 to 5 June 2017. NATO has added new members seven times since its founding in 1949, and since 2017 NATO has had 29 members. Twelve countries were part of the founding of NATO: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1952, Greece and Turkey became members of the Alliance, joined later by West Germany (in 1955) and Spain (in 1982). In 1990, with the reunification of Germany, NATO grew to include the former country of East Germany. Between
James S. Harlan clerk to Chief Justice Fuller. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Harlan as Attorney General of Puerto Rico and he served until 1903. He became a member in 1906, and chairman in 1914, of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1897, he married Mary Maud Noble in Washington, D.C. James S. Harlan James S. Harlan (November 24, 1861 – September 20, 1927) was an American lawyer and commerce specialist, son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and uncle of Justice John Marshall Harlan II. Harlan was born at Evansville, Indiana, graduated from Princeton University in 1883, and