| Show JUDGE FULLER HEAD ut AD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURT SUMMONED BY GRIM REAPER for twenty two year years he was pre iding siding justice in the highest tribunal of the american Amert can govern ment and had fine record bar harbor me chief justice mcl fel ville W puller fuller ot of the united d states supreme court died of heart failure at his eummer summer home in sorrento at 6 monday alunday morning july A 4 I 1 the death of the chief justice was I 1 entirely unexpected as he had been in ap patently good health lately and there bad been no premonitory symptoms of 0 any kind of on sun day ha attended church as usual and when he be retired at night be he was as to all appearances in his customary health to chief justice fuller fell the honor of third rank for length of service as presiding justice in the high eat tribunal of the american govern me ment nt for two years he was chief justice of the supreme court of the united states but chief justice marshall presided over the court for four yeara years and chief justice taney for twenty eight years ears defore before grover cleveland sent hta his name to the senate oa on april 30 1888 for confirmation as chief justice he was practically unknown except to members of the legal prof salon in maine where he was born on february 11 1833 be he had been known as a well behaved rather scholarly lad he lie had gone to bowdoin college and incidentally there won WOR moat most of 4 mt J MELVILLE W FULLER chief justice U 8 S supreme court the prizes for elocution he ile had gone down to the harvard law school for one ear then he be blossomed forth as a full fledged fled fied liwer and politician clari of a high minded eort sort in his nathe c city ty of augusta 1 brom rom to 1888 he lived in chi cago but attracted little attention outside his immediate circle of friends and at the bar until he ile undertook the defense of bishop henry on a charge of heresy he ile was a delegate delag ite to the national na tlona conventions of the democratic pait a 1864 18 and ISSO |
