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FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-1910)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 296 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-1910) , American jurist,
chief
  justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born at Augusta, Maine, on the l i t h of February 1833. After graduating at Bowdoin College in 1853 he spent a year at the Harvard Law School, and in 1855 began the practice of law at Augusta, where he was an associate-editor of a Democratic
paper
 , The Age, and served in the city council and as city attorney. In 1856 he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he continued to practise until 1888, rising to a high position at the bar of the Northwest. For some years he was active in Democratic politics, being a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1862 and of the State
House
  of Representatives from 1863 to 1865. He was a delegate to various National conventions of his party, and in that of 1876 placed
Thomas
  A.
Hendricks
  in nomination for the presidency. In 1888, by President
Cleveland
 's appointment, he succeeded Morrison R.
Waite
  as
chief
 -justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1899 he was appointed by President
McKinley
  a member of the arbitration commission at Paris to 'settle the
Venezuela
 -British Guiana boundary dispute.


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