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Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite:
Early patrons of Saint-Gaudens were instrumental in obtaining judicial commissions for the artist, and Senator William Evarts of New York was one of the most influential. When the bill to provide for a bust of the late Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite was introduced in the Senate in 188, he steered the commission to Saint-Gaudens. The bust was placed in the Supreme Court Chamber in the US Capitol in 1891. Today, it can be viewed upstairs in the Great Hall. |