Timothy Fuller

Timothy Fuller ( born July 11, 1778 in Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts; † October 1, 1835 in Groton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1825 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Fuller enjoyed a good education and then studied until 1801 at Harvard University. He then worked for some time as a teacher at the Leicester Academy. After studying law and his 1804 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1813 and 1817 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1816 Fuller was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Asahel Stearns on March 4, 1817. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1825 four legislative sessions. From 1821 to 1823 he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. Fuller was a supporter of President John Quincy Adams. Between 1825 and 1828, and again in 1831 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Timothy Fuller died on October 1, 1835 in Groton.

Timothy Fuller's eldest daughter was the social reformer and writer Margaret Fuller.