Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — A NEW CHIEF JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]

A NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.

M. W. Faller, of Chicago, Appointed to the Pouiiion bg tbe President. The President on the 30tb, cent to the Senate tbe nomination of Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United State*. The nomination gives gnat satis'acfaction at Chicago to the leading men of both par ies. He had no intimation that he was to receive the position and tbe announcement completely overcame him. He says hs will accept. Mr. Fuller was bora in Augusta, Main, Feb. 11,1833. He graduated at Bowdoinin 1853, and soon after began the study of law at Bangor. In 1856 he removed to Chicago, where his ability wes speedily recognizud, and for thirty years he has enjoyed a lucrative practice and won distinction among the foremost at the bar. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1864, 2872, 1876 and 1880. In his practice in the Supreme Court of the United S ates Mr. Fuller has repeatedly come in contact, both as a colleague and as an opponent, with Messrs. Edmonds, Thurman, Hoadly, Ingerso’l, and other admittedly great lawyers, and has never failed to hold his own among the greatest of them.