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Title
Morrison
R
.
Waite
photograph
Subject
Waite, Morrison R. (Morrison Remick), 1816-1888
Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918
Portraits
Supreme Court justices
Ohio History--State and Local Government
Time Period
1890s
Description
This
image
is
a
photograph
of a
drawing
of
Morrison
R
.
Waite
,
1890
. The
portrait
depicts
Waite
(1816-1888)
as a
dignified
older
man
wearing
his
jurist's
robe
. At the
bottom
of the
portrait
is
a
handwritten
signature
("M.R
.
Waite")
and
near
the
subject's
ringed
left
hand
is
the
artist's
signature
("Max
Rosenthal
,
Phila
[illegible]
90")
.
Waite
to the
left
his
home
state
of
Connecticut
to
practice
law
in
northwestern
Ohio
. He
ran
twice
unsuccessfully
for the
U.S
.
Senate
and
spent
one
term
in the
state
legislature
.
Waite
later
declined
a
seat
on the
Ohio
Supreme
Court
. In
1871
,
U.S
.
President
Ulysses
S
.
Grant
selected
Waite
to
help
settle
claims
with
Great
Britain
that
arose
from the
American
Civil
War
.
Waite's
legal
skills
helped
the
United
States
obtain
almost
$16
million
from
Great
Britain
for that
nation's
support
of the
Confederacy
during
the
Civil
War
.
Upon
returning
to the
United
States
,
Waite
participated
in the
Ohio
Constitutional
Convention
of
1873
and was
selected
to be the
convention's
president
.
While
serving
at the
Constitutional
Convention
,
Waite
received
word
that
President
Grant
had
nominated
him to be
Chief
Justice
of the
United
States
Supreme
Court
.
Waite
served
as
chief
justice
for the
next
fifteen
years
.
Max
Rosenthal
(1833-1918)
was a
painter
,
lithographer
,
etcher
, and
draftsman
born
in
Russian
Poland
, He
emigrated
to the
U.S
. in
1849
. He
is
one
of
four
Rosenthal
brothers
who
founded
a
lithographic
printing
company
in
Philadelphia
.
Max
was the
firm’s
primary
artist
. He
is
believed
to have
illustrated
some
of the
earliest
books
produced
in the
U.S
. that
used
the
chromolithograph
process
.
During
his
career
he
produced
hundreds
of
portraits
of
eminent
Americans
and
Britons
. His
son
,
Albert
Rosenthal
, was also a
noted
artist
.
Creator
Max Rosenthal (Artist)
Date of Original
1890
Collection
Morrison
R
.
Waite
Source
SC
4398
Format
Picture
;
Drawing
;
Black-and-white
photograph
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL05831.tif
Image Height
2120
Image Width
2120
File Size
17817828 Bytes
Date created
2011-08-05
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