Melville Weston Fuller - Chief Justice Of The United States 1888-1910

Willard L. King

• Publisher: Ehrsam Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473385788
• Print ISBN:
  9781406735222

A fascinating biography of the man who rose to become the eighth Chief Justice of the United States of America. A great read for any fan of political or legal history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Illustrations
• I Life in Maine
• II Bowdoin and Harvard
• III Chicago, 1856–1858
• IV Politics and the War, 1860–1865
• V Law and Life, 1856–1877
• VI Politics, 1868–1880
• VII Literature and Law, 1877–1888
• VIII Appointment
• IX Confirmation
• X Winning the Court
• XI Early Cases, Relations with Gray and Bradley, and the Circuit Court of Appeals Act, 1888–1891
• XII Life off the Bench, the Harrison Administration, 1888–1893
• XIII Fuller’s Increasing Influence on the Court, 1890–1892
• XIV More Triumphs and Some Defeats, Cleveland’s Second Term, 1893–1897
• XV The Income Tax Case
• XVI The Income Tax Case on Rehearing
• XVII Senility on the Court, 1897–1902
• XVIII The McKinley Administration, 1897–1901
• XIX Venezuelan Boundary Arbitration
• XX The Insular Cases
• XXI Fuller and Holmes, the Appointment of Holmes, 1902
• XXII Fuller and Holmes on the Court, 1902–1905
• XXIII “I am not to be ‘paragraphed’ out of my place,” 1902–1910
• XXIV Fuller and Holmes, 1904–1910
• XXV Death and Estimate
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index