Melville Fuller

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Melville Fuller
Former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court From: July 20, 1888 – July 4, 1910
Nominator	Grover Cleveland
Predecessor	Morrison Waite
Successor	Edward Douglass White
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Party	Democrat
Spouse(s)	Calista Reynolds (1858) Mary Coolbaugh (1866)
Religion	Episcopalian

Melville Weston Fuller (1833-1910) was the Chief Justice of the United States from 1888-1910.

Melville Fuller was appointed Chief Justice by President Grover Cleveland in 1888. Fuller managed Democratic Party candidate Stephen A. Douglas's campaign in the 1860 presidential election. He was known as a Copperhead Democrat. In 1896, a Fuller Court decision declared that racial segregation does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment so long as the "separate but equal" doctrine is followed. The decision allowed the continued existence of Jim Crow laws for another six decades.

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The U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice Melville Fuller's Court (1888–1910)
1888–1889 Samuel F. Miller | Stephen Johnson Field | Joseph P. Bradley | John Harlan I | Stanley Matthews | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II 1890–1891 Stephen Johnson Field | Joseph P. Bradley | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II | David Brewer 1891–1892 Stephen Johnson Field | Joseph P. Bradley | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown 1892–1893 Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. 1893 Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Howell E. Jackson 1894–1895 Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Howell E. Jackson | Edward D. White 1896–1897 Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham 1898–1902 John Harlan I | Horace Gray | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna 1902–1903 John Harlan I | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1903–1906 John Harlan I | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day 1906–1909 John Harlan I | David Brewer | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day | William Henry Moody Jan–Mar 1910 John Harlan I | David Brewer | Edward D. White | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day | William Henry Moody | Horace Lurton Mar–Jul 1910 John Harlan I | Edward D. White | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day | William Henry Moody | Horace Lurton