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Robert Burwell Fulton (April 8, 1849 – May 29, 1919) was an American university administrator. He served as the seventh chancellor of the
University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment. ...
in
Oxford, Mississippi Oxford is a city and college town in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Oxford lies 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Memphis, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Lafayette County. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British city of Oxf ...
from 1892 to 1906.


Biography


Early life

He was born in
Sumter County, Alabama Sumter County is a county located in the west central portion of Alabama."ACES Winston County Office" (links/history), Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), 2007, webpageACES-Sumter At the 2020 census, the population was 12,345. Its cou ...
on April 8, 1849.FindAGrave: Robert Burwell Fulton
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/ref> He graduated from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi in 1869.


Career

He taught in
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and in
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,
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. In 1871, he became Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. By 1875, he was a full Professor. He went on to serve as its seventh Chancellor from 1892 to 1906.James B. Lloyd, ''Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967'', Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 18

/ref> Additionally, he served as president of the National Association of State Universities for five years.The New York Times
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Personal life

He married Annie Rose Garland Fulton (1843-1893), the daughter of
Landon Garland Landon Cabell Garland (1810–1895), an American, was professor of physics and history and university president three times at different Southern Universities (Randolph Macon, Alabama, Vanderbilt) while living in the Southern United States for hi ...
(1810-1895), who served as the second President of Randolph-Macon College in
Ashland, Virginia Ashland is a town in Hanover County, Virginia, United States, located north of Richmond along Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 7,225, up from 6,619 at the 2000 census. Ashland is named after the Lexi ...
from 1836 to 1846, third president of the
University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la ...
from 1855 to 1865, and first chancellor of
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from 1875 to 1893. They had two sons and one daughter who died in infancy, and one son who survived: *Landon Garland Fulton (1872-1874). *Louise Garland Fulton (1873-1874). *Robert Garland Fulton (1875-1877). *
Maurice Garland Fulton Maurice Garland Fulton (December 3, 1877 – 1955) was an American historian and English professor. He was a professor of English and History at the New Mexico Military Institute for three decades. He was the (co-)author or (co-)editor of severa ...
(1877–1955; Professor of English at
New Mexico Military Institute New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) is a public military junior college and high school in Roswell, New Mexico. Founded in 1891, NMMI operates under the auspices of the State of New Mexico, under a dedicated Board of Regents that reports to the G ...
in
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). Annie died in 1893, and he remarried to Florence Thompson in 1903. He died on May 29, 1919. He was buried in the Oxford Memorial Cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi.


References

1849 births 1919 deaths People from Sumter County, Alabama People from Oxford, Mississippi University of Mississippi people {{US-academic-administrator-1840s-stub