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WAITE, MORRISON REMICK (1816–1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAITE, See also:MORRISON REMICK (1816–1888) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born at Lyme, See also:Connecticut, on the 29th of See also:November 1816, the son of See also:Henry Matson Waite (1787–1869), who was See also:judge of the See also:superior See also:court and See also:associate judge of the supreme court of Connecticut in 1834–1854 and See also:chief See also:justice of the latter in 1854–1857. He graduated at Yale in 1837, and soon afterwards removed to Maumee See also:City, See also:Ohio, where he studied See also:law in the See also:office of See also:Samuel L. See also:Young and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1839. In 1850 he removed to See also:Toledo, and he soon came to be recognized as a See also:leader of the See also:state bar. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican, and in 1849–1850 he was a member of the state See also:senate. In 1871, with See also:William M. See also:Evarts and See also:Caleb See also:Cushing, he represented the See also:United States as counsel before the " See also:Alabama " Tribunal at See also:Geneva, and in 1874 he presided over the Ohio constitutional See also:convention. In the same See also:year he was appointed by See also:President U. S. See also:Grant to succeed Judge See also:Salmon P. See also:Chase as chief-justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he held this position until his See also:death at See also:Washington, D.C., on the 23rd of See also:March 1888. In the cases which See also:grew out of the See also:Civil See also:War and Reconstruction, and especially in those which involved the See also:interpretation of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, he sympathized with the See also:general tendency of the court to restrict the further See also:extension of the See also:powers of the Federal See also:government.

He concurred with the See also:

majority in the See also:Head See also:Money Cases (1884), the Ku-Klux See also:Case (United States v. See also:Harris, 1882), the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and the Juillard v. Greenman (legal See also:tender) Case (1883). Among his own most important decisions were those in the Enforcement See also:Act Cases (1875), the Sinking Fund Case (1878), the Railroad See also:Commission Cases (1886) and the See also:Telephone Cases (1887).

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