ResearchGuides: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Selective Bibliography: The Gilded Age & Industrialization 1878-1899

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The Fuller Court, 1888-1910 by Howard B. Furer
Call Number: KF8742 .S9155 1986 vol. 5
ISBN: 0867330600
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
A biography of the Supreme Court Justices who made up the Fuller Court of 1888-1910.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

May 12, 1881 - March 22, 1889

Proceedings of the bench and bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in memoriam Stanley Matthews by United States Supreme Court
Call Number: KF8745.M38 P76 1889a
Publication Date: 1889
An address given to the Supreme Court following the death of Stanley Matthews celebrating his life and career. Available on microfiche and through Gale Databases' The Making of Modern Law (connect from catalog record).

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

December 20, 1881 - September 15, 1902

Horace Gray by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publication Date: 1902
A biography on the life and career of Horace Gray. Available through Gale Databases' The Making of Modern Law (connect from catalog record).
Proceedings of the bar and of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in memory of Horace Gray, January 17, 1903 by Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1903
An address given to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1903 celebrating the life and career of Horace Gray. Available through Gale Databases' The Making of Modern Law (connect from catalog record).

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

January 16, 1888 - January 23, 1893

Lucius Q. C. Lamar: his life, times, and speeches. 1825-1893 by Edward Mayes
Call Number: E 664 .L2 M41 1896
Publication Date: 1896
A biography on the life and career of Lucius Q.C. Lamar. Also available through Gale Databases' The Making of Modern Law (connect from catalog record).
Lucius Q.C. Lamar: secession and reunion by Wirt Armistead Cate
Call Number: KF4613 .C37 1935a
Publication Date: 1935
A look at the life of Lucius Q.C. Lamar through the secession and reunion of the nation. Available on microfiche.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

October 8, 1888 - July 4, 1910

Chief Justice Fuller : a descendant of one of the early settlers of Dedham by Don Gleason Hill
Call Number: KF8745.F8 H55 1888a
Publication Date: 1888
this biography looks at the early life of Melville W. Fuller and how that shaped his later career. Available on microfiche and through Gale Databases' The Making of Modern Law (connect from catalog record).
The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910 by James W. Ely
Call Number: KF8745.F8 E44 1995
ISBN: 0585343233
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
A biography on the life and career of Melville W. Fuller.
Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, 1888-1910 by Willard L. King
Call Number: KF8745.F84 K56 1967a
Publication Date: 1967
A biography on Melville W. Fuller, a man who only held on political office but became close friends with President Grover Cleveland who assured his advancement. Available on microfiche.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

December 18, 1889 - March 28, 1910

David J. Brewer by Michael J. Brodhead
Call Number: KF 8745.B749 B76 1994
ISBN: 0809319098
Publication Date: 1994-03-29
This was the first biography on the life of David J. Brewer and discusses the Justice's life from a county probate judge to the Supreme Court. This biography challenges the popular notion that Justice Brewer was a staunch conservative and that he instead was accepting of many of his generation's progressive goals.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

July 26, 1892 - February 23, 1903

Justice George Shiras, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1892-1903; a chronicle of his family, life, and times by George Shiras III, edited and completed, 1953, by Winfield Shiras
Call Number: KF8745.S5 S52
Publication Date: 1953
A biography on the life and career of George Shiras, Jr. written by his son, George Shiras, III.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

February 19, 1894 - December 18, 1910

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

December 19, 1910 - May 19, 1921

Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of the United States by Marie Carolyn Klinkhamer
Call Number: KF8745.W54 K54 1943a
Publication Date: 1943
A biography on the life and career of Edward Douglass White.
Edward Douglass White, defender of the conservative faith by Robert B. Highsaw
Call Number: KF8745.W5 H53 1981
ISBN: 0807107530
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
A look at the life and career of Edward Douglass White, a Chief Justice who defended conservatism while on the bench.
The man on the bench : a story of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White by Brother Gerard Hagemann
Call Number: KF8745.W5 H3 1962a
Publication Date: 1962
A biography on the life and career of Edward Douglass White.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

December 9, 1895 - October 24, 1909

Proceedings of the bar and officers of the Supreme Court of the United States in memory of Rufus Wheeler Peckham, December 18, 1909 by United States Supreme Court
Publication Date: 1909-12-18
An address given to the Supreme Court following the death of Rufus Wheeler Peckham, celebrating his life and career. Available through Gale Databases' The Making of Modern Law (connect from catalog record).

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

January 21, 1898 - January 25, 1925

Joseph McKenna, Associate Justice of the United States by Brother Matthew McDevitt
Call Number: KF373.M32 M32 1946a
Publication Date: 1946
Originally written as a thesis, this work looks at the life and career of Justice Joseph McKenna. Available on microfiche.