Melville Weston Fuller (Noun)
Meaning
United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The Melville Weston Fuller served as the eighth Chief Justice of the United States from 1888 to 1910.
- Melville Weston Fuller was born in Augusta, Maine in 1833 to Frederick Augustus Fuller and Susannah Martin Fuller.
- Fuller was taken to Chicago by his uncle, Henry Fuller, an active businessman, and Melville Weston Fuller began his education at his uncle's home.
- As a strong supporter of local self-government, Melville Weston Fuller regularly voted for a reduced national role in maintaining civil rights and the regulation of internal state affairs.
- After his graduation from Bowdoin in 1853, Melville Weston Fuller moved to Chicago in August and returned in fall, setting sail once more the spring that follows where eventually an ammunitions expedition nearly lands on watery grins sent near mutinuing despair prompting again traveling however set up for the first time an attorney office.