Richard H. Fulton

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Richard H. Fulton

Richard Harmon Fulton (born January 27, 1927 in Nashville , Tennessee ; † November 28, 2018 there ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). From January 3, 1963 until his resignation on August 14, 1975, he represented the state of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives .

Life

Fulton grew up in East Nashville, where he attended Warner Elementary School and then East High School . He graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . Between 1945 and 1946 he served in the United States Navy . He then returned to the University of Tennessee and resumed his studies.

Fulton first came into contact with politics when his brother Lyle ran for a seat in the Tennessee Senate and supported its election campaign. However, when his brother died of liver cancer after a short illness, he accepted his candidacy and was elected to the Tennessee Senate. However, since Fulton was only 29 years old at the time, he could not take up his mandate . He ran again in the next Senate election. Fulton was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1958 to 1960.

In 1962, Fulton sought a nomination for his party as a Democratic candidate in the fifth congressional electoral district of the state of Tennessee. However, he was defeated in the corresponding primaries to his party colleague and previous Congressman Joseph Carlton Loser . After irregularities were found, the primaries were repeated. This time Fulton won against Loser. Fulton was also able to win the subsequent congressional elections, so that he took over Loser's seat in Congress . Fulton now represented the fifth congressional constituency of the state of Tennessee from January 3, 1963 to his resignation on August 14, 1975 in the US House of Representatives. During this time he attended the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in 1964 .

Then Fulton became mayor of Nashville . He held this office as the successor to Beverly Briley from August 14, 1975 to October 5, 1987. In 1978 and 1986 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections in Tennessee.

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SURNAME Fulton, Richard H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fulton, Richard Harmon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2018
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee