Hampton P. Fulmer

Hampton Pitts Fulmer (* June 23, 1875 in Springfield, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, † October 19, 1944 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1944 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hampton Fulmer attended the public schools of his home and then to 1897 the Massey 's Business College in Columbus (Georgia ). He then became active in Norway (South Carolina ) in agriculture and trade. He also went into the banking business.

Fulmer was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1917 and 1920 he was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. In 1920 he was selected in the seventh constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Edward C. Mann on March 4, 1921. Until his death in October 1944, he was now continuously remain in Congress. Until March 3, 1933, he represented the seventh district; after it was dissolved in 1932, Fulmer moved from March 4, 1933 as the successor to Butler B. Hare in the second constituency. From 1939 to 1945 he was chairman of the Agriculture Committee.

In the 23 years of his Congress membership, he experienced the great economic boom of the 1920s and the subsequent Great Depression. In the 1930s, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were discussed and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress. The last years of his work in the House of Representatives were overshadowed by the events of World War II. Also during his time in Congress, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution came into force. It was about the redefinition of commencement of the terms of office of the Congress and the President, and the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of 1919, which forbade the trade in alcohol.

In 1944, Fulmer had already been nominated for another term in Congress when he died on October 19. He was buried in Orangeburg. His wife Willa (1884-1968) was elected as his successor in the House of Representatives.