Timothy FULLER

1778 - 1835  (57 years)

• Name	Timothy FULLER
  Born	11 Jul 1778	Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	US Representative from Massachusetts
  Cause of Death	Cholera
  Died	1 Oct 1835	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I3664	Main
  Last Modified	30 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Thomas SUTTON,   b. 1723, Bertie County, N Carolina ,   d. Aug 1779, Bertie County, N Carolina  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Sarah JORDON,   b. Abt 1725,   d. Abt 1765  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Family ID	F1278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Timothy FULLER,   b. 18 May 1739, Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 3 Jul 1805, Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Sarah WILLIAMS,   b. 1745,   d. Mar 1822  (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret CRANE,   b. 1789,   d. ?
  Married	28 May 1809
  Children	1. Sarah Margaret FULLER,   b. 23 May 1810, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 19 Jul 1850, At sea off Fire Island, New York, New York  (Age 40 years) + 2. Arthur Buckminster FULLER,   b. 10 Aug 1822, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Dec 1862, Fredericksburg, (independent), Virginia  (Age 40 years)
  Last Modified	30 May 2019
  Family ID	F10790	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Fuller was born in Chilmark, Massachusetts. His father, Timothy, the first settled minister of Princeton, Mass., was third in descent, from Thomas, who emigrated from England in 1638. The younger Timothy received a classical education and graduated from Harvard University in 1801 with second honors. He taught at Leicester Academy, then studied law with Levi Lincoln.[1] He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as a State councilor and served in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1813 to 1816. Fuller was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth through the Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1825). He served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Seventeenth Congress. He was distinguished as an orator, making effective speeches in behalf of the Seminole Indians, and against the Missouri compromise. He was an ardent supporter of John Quincy Adams, and published a pamphlet entitled “The Election for the Presidency Considered,” which was widely circulated.[1] Fuller married Margaret Crane in 1809 and moved to 71 Cherry Street in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. He was the father of early feminist Margaret Fuller, and is also the great-great grandfather of inventor and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller.[2] He died suddenly of cholera, intestate and insolvent,[1] in Groton on October 1, 1835, and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.