Hampton P. Fulmer

Hampton P. Fulmer

Hampton Pitts Fulmer (born 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 US House of Representatives .

Career

Hampton Fulmer attended the common schools and then to 1897 the Massey's Business College in Columbus ( Georgia ). He then worked in agriculture and trade in Norway, South Carolina. He also got into banking.

Fulmer was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1917 and 1920 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . In 1920 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh constituency of South Carolina, where he succeeded Edward C. Mann on March 4, 1921 . Until his death in October 1944 he would now remain in Congress without interruption . Until March 3, 1933 he represented the seventh district; after this was dissolved in 1932, Fulmer changed 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 membership in Congress he experienced the great economic boom of the 1920s and the world economic crisis that followed . In the 1930s, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were debated and passed in Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . The last years of his activity in the House of Representatives were overshadowed by the events of World War II . Also during his time in Congress, the 20th and 21st amendments came into force. It was about the redefinition of the beginning of the terms of office of the Congress and the President as well as the repeal of the 18th constitutional amendment from 1919, which prohibited the alcohol trade.

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

Web links

• Hampton P. Fulmer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hampton P. Fulmer in the database of Find a Grave (English)