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Melville Weston Fuller 1833-1910, American jurist, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (1888-1910), b. Augusta, Maine. He studied at Harvard law school, and after 1856 he became a prominent lawyer in Chicago and acquired a national reputation in Democratic politics. Fuller was appointed Chief Justice by President Cleveland. In his opinions he leaned toward strict construction of the Constitution. He also served as a commissioner to help settle the Venezuela Boundary Dispute and was a member (1900-1910) of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague Tribunal).

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Fuller, Melville Weston (1833–1910) US lawyer, chief justice of the Supreme Court (1888–1910). Appointed by Grover Cleveland, Fuller was a strict constructionist. Important cases include Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld ‘separate but equal’ laws of segregation. He helped settle a boundary dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain (1899), and was a member of the Hague Tribunal (1900–10).

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