Biography of Melville Weston Fuller


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Fuller, Melville Weston. Chief justice of the United States. Born in Augusta, ME, February 11, 1833. Fuller was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853, and attended a course of lectures at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar, 1855. Formed a law partnership at Augusta. Was associate editor of "The Age," a Democratic paper there. President of the common council and city solicitor. Went to Chicago in 1856, and practiced law until 1888. Fuller was a member of the Illinois State Constitutional Convention, 1862, and of the legislature, 1863-65. Chief Justice of the United States from 1888 to 1910. Died 1910.