Who Was The Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Of America From The Year Of 1874?

Morrison Remick Waite was appointed as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the year of the 1874. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him in that post. He was born on 29th of November in the year of 1816 at Lyme in the United States. First he practiced law in Toledo, Ohio. Alabama case was his most notable case of that time.

United States vs. Cruikshank was one of his memorable cases. In that incident he explained despite as an apparently plain language. In his view the fifteenth amendment had not discussed a federal right of suffrage on African Americans. He stated the cause as 'the right to vote comes from the states'.

The case of Munn vs. Illinois was the most famous among his all cases. In that case Morrison Waite endorsed legislation fixing maximum rates which was chargeable by grain elevators as well as railroads. He also declared that a business or a privet property "affected with a public interest" was a subject to the government regulation.

Morrison Remick Waite was died on 23rd of March in the year 1888 in Washington D.C in United States. Till his death he was the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.