- Thomas Charles Fuller
Thomas Charles Fuller (
February 27 ,1832 —October 20 ,1901 ) was a prominent politician of theConfederate States of America and later a federal judge.Born in
Fayetteville ,North Carolina , he was the youngest of three children born to Thomas, a merchant, and Catherine Eleanor (Raboteau) Fuller. After his father's premature death, Fuller's mother moved the family to Louisburg, where her husband was originally from. Fuller attended the University of North Carolina from 1849 to 1851 and later returned to Fayetteville and established alaw practice there with his brother Bartholomew.cite encyclopedia |last=Raney |first=Carolyn F. |coauthors=Mena F. Webb |editor=William S. Powell |encyclopedia=Dictionary of North Carolina Biography |title=Fuller, Bartholomew |url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/global/getBio.html?name=Fuller,%20Bartholomew&type=dncb&id=pn0000552&projid= |accessdate=2008-05-19 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |volume=2 |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |pages=247—48 ]Upon the outbreak of the
American Civil War he served as acolonel in theConfederate Army . He represented North Carolina in theSecond Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.In 1890, President
Benjamin Harrison appointed Fuller as a justice of theUnited States Court of Private Land Claims . [cite news
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External links
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