MORRISON R. WAITE

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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

PORTRAITS:

National Portrait Gallery
Artist: Israel Quick (U.S. Supreme Court Collection)