(1808-1876) a U.S. Representative was born in Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont, March 17, 1808. He attended the common schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Calais.
Elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1857), Fuller was chairman of the Committee on Commerce (Thirty-third Congress), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1856. Appointed by President Buchanan as Second Auditor of the Treasury, he and served from April 15, 1857, to August 3, 1861.
He practiced law before the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Claims in Washington, D.C.
Fuller died, while on a visit to his son, near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia on February 13, 1876, with interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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