FUILLER, HENRY BLAKE

(1857), author; >. Chicago. His publicatio ns include novels, dramatic sketches, short stories and verse. His first book was The Chevalier of PensiertVani, i ued in 1901, followed by The Clif’ Dwellers. In 1919 he published Betram Cope's Year, a novel, 1833-1910), American jurist and a hief Justice of the United States Sureme Court.. in August a, Me; _ at Sorrento, Me. Graduating from Bowdoin College in 1853 he attended the lectures of the Harvard Law School (LL.D.) and was admitted to the bar in August a, Me., in 1855, where he began law practice, and was also a ociated editor of a Democratic newspaper, The Age. He was elected City Attorney in 1856, and president of the Common Council, resigning to move to Chicago in 1862 where he conducted a lucrative practice. A member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1865, he was elected to the State Legislature, 1864, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876 which eye Thomas Hendricks in nomination, n 1880 he was considered as a presldential candidate. For a time he retired from politics to pursue his law busine , In 1888 Cleveland appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed R. M. Waite, deceased. While Chief Justice he di ented from the majority of the court in 31 cases, Tn 1899 he was a member of the Arbitration Conference at Paris to adjust the Venezuela Boundary tangle, and in 1904-5 Great Britain selected him as arbitrator at the Hague in the case of the French flag at Muscat. See Reader, The University of Pennsyluania Law Review, Oct. 1910, for a review of his work in the Supreme Court.