William E. Fuller

Elijah William Fuller ( born March 30, 1846 in Howard, Centre County, Pennsylvania, † April 23, 1918 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1853, William Fuller moved with his parents to West Union in Fayette County, Iowa. There he attended the public schools. Later he studied at the Upper Iowa University in Fayette and the University of Iowa in Iowa City. After a subsequent law degree, also at the University of Iowa, and its made ​​in 1870 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in West Union.

Fuller was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1866 and 1867 he was employed in the Indian Bureau of the Interior Ministry. For six years he sat in the Education Committee of the municipality of West Union. From 1876 to 1877 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Iowa. He also belonged to the regional board of the Republicans in Iowa. In 1884 he was selected in the fourth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Luman Hamlin Weller on March 4, 1885. After a re-election in 1886 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions. In 1888 he declined to run again.

Between 1901 and 1907 he was a federal prosecutor in a chamber that emerged with claims under the peace treaty that had ended the Spanish-American War of 1898 (Spanish Treaty Claims Commission ). Thereafter, Fuller worked as a lawyer again. He died on 23 April 1918 in the German capital Washington and was buried in West Union.