OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Melville Weston Fuller

BORN:
February 11, 1833
Augusta, Maine

DIED:
July 4, 1910 (age 77)
Sorrento, Maine

EDUCATION:
Bowdoin College (AB, 1853)
Attended Harvard Law School (1854-1855)
Bowdoin  College (AM, 1856)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1855-1856:
Practiced Law in Augusta, Maine
Editor, Augusta Age
1856:
President, Augusta Common Council
City Solicitor for Augusta, Maine
1856-1888:
Practiced Law in Chicago. Illinois
1862:
Delegate, Illinois Constitutional Convention
1863-1865:
Illinois State Representative
1888-1910:
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
1899:
Member, Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Commission
1900-1910:
Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Library of Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Wikipedia

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