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MELVILLE WESTON
FULLER was born in Augusta, Maine, on February 11, 1833,
and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853. Fuller
read law in Bangor, Maine, and was admitted to the bar
after six months of study at Harvard Law School. In 1855,
Fuller began to practice law in Augusta Maine, and was
elected President of the Augusta Common Council and appointed
city solicitor. In 1856, Fuller moved west to Chicago,
where he established a law practice and became active
in politics. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives
in 1863 and served one term. In succeeding years he was
offered the positions of Chairman of the Civil Service
Commission and Solicitor General of the United States
but declined both. President Grover Cleveland nominated
Fuller Chief Justice of the United States on April 30,
1888. The Senate confirmed the appointment on July 20,
1888. While on the Court, Fuller served on the Venezuela-British
Guiana Border Commission and the Court of Permanent Arbitration
at the Hague. Fuller served twenty-one years as Chief
Justice and died on July 4, 1910, at the age of seventy-seven.
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