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erty interests became involved. 3Ir. Fuller was a friend and supporter of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, making the welcoming speech when the senator visited Chicago in 1860. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1863; a representative in the state legislature. 1863-65; a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880; and a supporter of the civil service reform movements advanced by Grover Cleveland in the ixilitical canvass of 1884. On the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of chief justice of the United States, caused by the death of Chief-Justice Waite, March 33. 1888, Pi-esident Cleveland appointed Mr. Fuller chief justice on April 30. His nomi- nation was confirmed by the senate, July 20. and he took the oath of office and his seat, Oct. 8, 1888. He was married in 1866 to Mary E., daughter of William F. Coolbaugh of Chicago. 111. He was elected a trustee of the Peabody education fund and was first vice-president of the board in 1899, William M. Evarts being pres- ident. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Northwestern university and frou\ Bowdoin college in 1888, and from Harvard university in 1891.

FULLER, Richard, clergyman, was born in Beaufort, S.C, April 22, 1804. He was educated at Harvard, leaving the class of 1834 while in his junior year on account of ill health. He then studied law and acquired eminence at the bar He was constrained through the influence of a religious revival to leave the bar and the Prot- estant Episcopal church and join the Baptists. He was at once rebaptized and ordained as a min- ister in that denomination and became pastor of the Baptist church at Beaufort, at the same time conducting religious revivals in other sections His fame as a revivalist spread and he added to his national reputation by conducting controver- sies with Bishop England of Charleston, S.C, on the claims of the Roman Catholic church, and with President Wayland of Brown university on the subject of slavery. In 1846 he removed to Baltimore, Md., where, as pastor of a Baptist church, he had eminent success in building up two huge congregations. Harvard conferred upon liim the honorai-y degree of A.B. in 1824 and that of S.T.D. in 1853; and Columbian university (D.C.). of which he was a trustee, 1847-73, and an overseer, 1873-76, gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1844. His contro- ver.sy with Bishop England was published in 1840 and that with President Wayland in 1845. He also published an Ar(jtiment on li/iptht and Close Communion (1849) : and a Psalmist popular with his denomination. His nephew. Dr. Jaines H. Cuthbert, published a memoir in 1879. Dr. Fuller died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 20, 187G.

FULLER, SamueL educator, was born in Rensselaerville, X.Y., April 2T>, 1802; sou of the Rev. Samuel and Ruth (Pond) Fuller. His father founded Trinity church in Rensselaerville and St. Paul's church in Greenville, N.Y. The son was graduated from Union college in 1833 and in 1823 was principal of Hudson acad- emy. He then became private tutor in the family of a Mrs. Carter of Halifax, Va., where he became acquainted with Bishop Mead who influenced him to study tlieology. He was grad- uated from the General theological seminary. New York city, in 1827, was ordained deacon by Bishop Hobart, and ])reached his first sermon at St. Paul's, New York city. He was pastor of St. Paul's, Woodbury, Conn., 1827-38; rector of a church in Saco, Slaine, for a part of 1828; was tutor in Trinity college, 1838-30 ; rector of Grace church. Providence, R.I., 1830-31; editor of tie Episcopal Watchman, 1831-32; and rector of St. Michael's. Litchfield, Conn., 1832-37, and of Christ church, Andover, Mass., 1837-43. He then became Milnor professor at Bexley Hall, the theological seminary of the Episcopal church of Ohio, of which Kenyon college was a branch. In 1844 he was president pro tempore of Kenyon college, afterward declining election to the presi- dency. The next five years were spent in second rectorships at Litchfield and Andover. He was lecturer on Christian life in the Divinity school of the P.E. church in Philadelphia, 1853-59; pro- fessor of Latin and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, Berkeley divinity school. Middletown, Conn., 1859-83, and professor emeritus, 1883-95. He was married, Jidy 15. 1830, to Charlotte King- man, daughter of the Hon. Simon and Hannah (Kingman) Greenleaf, and their son, the Rev. Simon Greenleaf Fuller, became rector of St. Paul's, Syracuse, N.Y., in February, 1870. Dr. Fuller wrote several books, his first being Loutron, and the others treatises on baptism, confirma- tion, creed, liturgy and regeneration, and a Com- mcntani on the L'rrelation of St. John the Divine. He died in Middletown, Conn., March 8, 1895.

FULLER, Sarah Margaret, see Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller.

FULLER, Timothy, representative, was born in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., July 11, 1778. His father, the Rev. Timotliy Fuller (Har- vard, 1760), was fir.st minister at Princeton, Mass., and third in descent from Thomas Fuller, emi- grant, who left England in 1638 and settled in Massachusetts. The son was graduated at Har- vard in 1801, taught in Leicester academy, studied law with Levi Lincoln, and practised in Boston, Mass. He was a state senator, 1813-lfl, and a representative in congress during the latter jiart of the first, the whole of the second session of the 15th congress and the entire 16th, 17th and