Morrison R. Waite

Morrison R. Waite a copy of his eulogy on Chief Justice

My Memories of Eighty Years 1881

Morrison R. Waite, of Toledo, was perhaps even more Ohioan in those traits of plainness and simplicity in greatness which we like to claim for Ohio, only upon sober second thought to acknowledge that they are the distinctive American traits.

Stories Of Ohio William Dean Howells 1878

In 1873 he appointed Morrison R. Waite Chief Justice to succeed Salmon P. Chase, who died in May of that year.

Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

The President next nominated Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, who had been connected with the Alabama Claims Conference at Geneva, and who was a men of eminent legal abilities, conscientious, and of great purity of character.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

However the entire issue of corporate personhood rests solely on a statement made by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite before opening arguments in the case:

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Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite read the courts finding.

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R.therford B. Hayes, Morrison R. Waite, William E. Dodge,

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

Morrison R. Waite to R.mick, a grandson of Thomas and Mary Bronson Wait, of Lyme.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 Various

He sent to Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite a copy of his eulogy on Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Waite's predecessor, and at the same time a ham, saying in his letter: "My dear Chief Justice, I send you to-day one of my prize hams and also my eulogy on Chief Justice Chase, both the products of my pen."

My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

It was 1886, and Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, delivering the opinion of the court said "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.

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