

OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Morrison Remick Waite
BORN:
November 29, 1816
Lyme, Connecticut
DIED:
March 23, 1888
Washington, DC
EDUCATION:
Yale College (1837)
Read Law (1839)
HIGHLIGHTS:
1839-1850:
Practiced Law in Maumee City, Ohio
1849-1850:
Ohio State Representatives
1850-1874:
Practiced Law in Toledo, Ohio
1863:
Advisor to Ohio Governor David Tod
1871:
U.S. Representative to the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal
1873;
President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention
1874-1888:
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Supreme Court of Ohio
Ohio History Central
Oyez
Wikipedia
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