Which president appointed Fuller as Chief Justice?
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Answer
The nation's 22nd President Grover Cleveland appointed Melville Weston Fuller as the 7th Chief Justice of the United States on July 20, 1888, making him the second president to appoint Fuller as a Supreme Court Justice. Fuller served until his death in 1910 and is remembered for presiding over several important cases, including Poindexter v. Greenhow and United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which shaped American law and jurisprudence.
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