Abram Fulkerson

Abram Fulkerson ( born May 13, 1834 Washington County, Virginia; † December 17, 1902 in Bristol, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Abram Fulkerson attended until 1857, the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington and taught then as a teacher in Palmyra and in Rogersville (Tennessee). During the Civil War he served in various units in the army of the Confederacy, where he rose to colonel. He participated in several battles and was wounded several times. In 1864 he was taken prisoner. After a subsequent to the war and his law degree in 1866 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Bristol in this profession. At the same time he proposed a political career as a Democrat. At times, he was also a member of the short-lived Readjuster party. In the years 1871 to 1873 he sat in the House of Representatives from Virginia. From 1877 to 1879 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Fulkerson was in the ninth constituency of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Buchanan Richmond on March 4, 1881. Until March 3, 1883, he was able to complete a term in Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Abram Fulkerson again practiced as a lawyer. In 1888 he was elected again in the House of Representatives of Virginia. In July 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He died on 17 December 1902 in Bristol.