William E. Fuller

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

Career

In 1853, William Fuller moved with his parents to West Union , Fayette County , Iowa. There he attended public schools. He later studied at 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 his admission as a lawyer in 1870, he began to practice in West Union in his new profession.

Fuller was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1866 and 1867 he was employed in the Interior Ministry's Indian office. He served on the Education Committee of the West Union Ward for six years. From 1876 to 1877 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives . He was also a member of the Iowa Regional Republican Board of Directors. In 1884 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth constituency of Iowa, where he succeeded Luman Hamlin Weller on March 4, 1885 . After a re-election in 1886, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1889 . In 1888 he refused to run again.

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

Web links

• William E. Fuller in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William E. Fuller in the database of Find a Grave (English)