. Contemporary American biography . ommissioned his successor as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on the20th of July following. This was obviously to the people of the country an appointment basedsolely and more conspicuously than usual upon pre-eminent fitness for the high office. Thedistinguished lawyer upon whom the great honor was conferred had taken but slight part inpolitics. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of Illinois in 1861, serveda single term in the Legislature in 1862, and was a delegate to the Democratic National con-ventions in 1864,
. Contemporary American biography . ommissioned his successor as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on the20th of July following. This was obviously to the people of the country an appointment basedsolely and more conspicuously than usual upon pre-eminent fitness for the high office. Thedistinguished lawyer upon whom the great honor was conferred had taken but slight part inpolitics. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of Illinois in 1861, serveda single term in the Legislature in 1862, and was a delegate to the Democratic National con-ventions in 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880. The Chief Justice is a man of scholarly tastes andripe culture, studious, engaged usually in some deep literary, historic, or legal research. He isconversant with several European languages and familiar with the classics. He was the recip-ient of the degree of from the Northwestern University in 1884 and from BowdoinCollege in 1888, and numerous other honors have been conferred upon him in recognition of. wmaJ/yiym-i €/ CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 439 his literary attainments. As an orator he has achieved a wide reputation based upon successesbefore learned and critical bodies rather than popular assemblages, though he has also addressedthe latter with marked effectiveness on numerous occasions. One of the most notable of hisorations was that in Centennial Commemoration of the Inauguration of George Washingtonas First President of the United States, delivered before the two Houses of Congress on the11th of December, 1889. This was undoubtedly one of the loftiest special orations ever listenedto by our National Congress. Patriotic, eloquent, historic, and keenly analytic yet ardent, itwas a noble example of sustained oratorical power as well as of profound original thought, andit made a most abiding impression upon the distinguished audience that listened to it withrapt attention. Chief Justice Fuller has presided for seven years with impressiv
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