MELVILLE

See also:

• WESTON, THOMAS (1737-1776)

WESTON

See also:

• FULLER, ANDREW (1954-1815)
• FULLER, GEORGE (1822—1884)
• FULLER, M
• FULLER, MARGARET, MARCHIONESS
• MELVILLE WESTON FULLER (1833-1910)
• FULLER, THOMAS (16o8-1661)
• FULLER, WILLIAM (1670--c. 1717)

FULLER (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 .