FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-191o), American jurist, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S., was born at Augusta, Me., on Feb. i 1, 1833. After he had graduated at Bow doin College in 1853 he spent a year at the Harvard Law School, and in 1855 began the practice of law at Augusta. In 1856 he re moved to Chicago, Ill., where he continued to practise until 1888. He was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1862 and of the State house of representatives from 1863 to 1865. In 1888, by President Cleveland's appointment, he suc ceeded Morrison R. Waite as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1899 he was appointed by President McKinley a member of the arbitration commission at Paris to settle the Venezuela-British Guiana boundary dispute.