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Morrison R. Waite was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the seventh Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to lead the Supreme Court during the Reconstruction era.
His Court issued decisions including the Slaughter-House Cases and the Civil Rights Cases, which limited the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment against state action.
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