Melville Fuller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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United States federal judge
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1833
Place of Birth: Augusta, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 04-Jul-1910
Profession: judge, lawyer, politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Melville Fuller
- Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was a politician, lawyer, and judge from Illinois.
- He was the eighth Chief Justice of the United States from 1888 to 1910. Born in Augusta, Maine, he established a legal practice in Chicago after graduating from Bowdoin College.
- He also served as a newspaper editor and managed Democrat Stephen A.
- Douglas's campaign in the 1860 presidential election.
- During the Civil War, he served a single term in the Illinois House of Representatives, and political opponents would later claim that he was an anti-war Copperhead.
- Fuller became a prominent attorney in Chicago and was a delegate to several Democratic national conventions. He declined several appointments offered by President Grover Cleveland before accepting the nomination to succeed Morrison Waite as Chief Justice.
- Despite some opposition to the nomination, Fuller won Senate confirmation in 1888.
- In 1893, he declined Cleveland's offer to serve as Secretary of State.
- He served as Chief Justice until his death in 1910. As Chief Justice of the Fuller Court, he presided over several important cases.
- In Plessy v.
- Ferguson, the court articulated the doctrine of separate but equal and upheld Jim Crow laws.
- His opinion in Pollock v.
- Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
- struck down the federal income tax provision of the Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act.
- The decision was later superseded by the Sixteenth Amendment.
- Fuller's opinion in United States v.
- E.
- C.
- Knight Co.
- narrowly interpreted the Sherman Antitrust Act, making government prosecution of antitrust cases more difficult.
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