- Philo C. Fuller
Philo Case Fuller (
August 14 ,1787 near Marlboro,Middlesex County, Massachusetts -August 16 ,1855 near Geneva,Ontario County, New York ) was an American lawyer and politician.Life
He was the son of Samuel Fuller and Delia Case Fuller. He served in the War of 1812. He was admitted to the bar in 1813, and practiced in
Geneseo, New York . In April 1817, he married Sophia Nowlen (ca. 1791-1850), and their children were Samuel Lucius Fuller (b. 1818), Edward Philo Fuller (b. 1820) and George A. Fuller (b. 1822).He was a member from Livingston County of the
New York State Assembly in 1829 and 1830. He was a member of theNew York State Senate from 1831 to 1832.Fuller was elected as an Anti-Mason to the
23rd United States Congress , and re-elected as anAnti-Jacksonian to the24th United States Congress , and served fromMarch 4 ,1833 toSeptember 2 ,1836 , when he resigned, and moved toAdrian, Michigan where he engaged in banking and was president of theErie and Kalamazoo Railroad .He was a member of the
Michigan House of Representatives in 1841 and was Speaker until April 3 when he resigned having been appointed AssistantUnited States Postmaster General by PresidentWilliam Henry Harrison . Later that year, he was an unsuccessful Whig candidate forGovernor of Michigan . Afterwards he returned to Geneseo, N.Y.On December 18, 1850, he was appointed
New York State Comptroller , and served for the remainder ofWashington Hunt 's unexpired term until the end of 1851.He was buried at the Temple Hill Cemetery in Geneseo.
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fuller.html] Political Graveyard
* [http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(4wzkxq45sghqpw551jmd2dbq)/documents/publications/manual/2003-2004/2003-mm-0304-0307-Speakers.pdf] List of Speakers of the MI House, at MI Legislature
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mabiog/Middlesex_County/fullerphilocase.htm] Fuller family, at rootsweb
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA36 Google Book] "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 34, 141 and 274; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
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