Henry Mills Fuller

Henry Mills Fuller ( born January 3, 1820 Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, † December 26, 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853, and again from 1855 to 1857, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Fuller received a good education. In 1839, he graduated from Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1842 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Wilkes-Barre to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the years 1848 and 1849 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Fuller was in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Brisbin on March 4, 1851. Since he has not been confirmed in 1852, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was overshadowed by discussions on the issue of slavery. In 1854, Fuller was elected as a candidate of the short-lived opposition party in the twelfth district of his state again in Congress, where he could spend another legislative period between March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857. This time was determined by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In 1856, Henry Fuller gave up another Congress candidate. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on December 26, 1860 in Philadelphia.