AUGUSTA (AP) — Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller has been immortalized in bronze in his Maine home town.

A statue of Fuller was unveiled Wednesday in front of the Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta.

The Kennebec Journal reported that the statue is a gift of retired attorney and Fuller descendant Robert Fuller. He says it cost about $40,000.

It was sculpted by Forest Hart of Monroe.

Fuller, who was born in Augusta and sworn in to the bar inside the courthouse, was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Grover Cleveland in 1888. He spent 21 years as chief justice until he died in office on July 4, 1910.

Current Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Leigh Saufley called Fuller “an Augusta boy made good.”