FULLER, Timothy (1778-1835)

Adams-Clay Republican of Massachusetts

4th congressional district

Served in House 1817-1825

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Biography

Representative from Massachusetts; born in Chilmark, Dukes County, Mass., July 11, 1778; received a classical education and graduated from Harvard University in 1801; taught at Leicester Academy; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston in 1804; served in the State senate 1813-1817; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fifteenth through the Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1825); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventeenth Congress); member of the State house of representatives 1825-1828; State councilor in 1828; again elected to the State house of representatives in 1831; died in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., October 1, 1835; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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