Timothy Fuller (July 11, 1778 – October 1, 1835) was a

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from

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Life and work

Fuller was born in Chilmark, Massachusetts. His father, also named Timothy, the first settled minister of Princeton, Massachusetts, was third in descent, from Thomas, who emigrated from England in 1638. The younger Timothy received a classical education and graduated from

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in 1801 with second honors. He taught at Leicester Academy, then studied law with Levi Lincoln. He was

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and commenced practice in

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. He served as member of the

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, as a State councilor and served in the

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from 1813 to 1816. Fuller was elected as a

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to the

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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

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, and against the

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. He was an ardent supporter of

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, and published a pamphlet entitled "The Election for the Presidency Considered," which was widely circulated. Fuller married Margaret Crane in 1809 and moved to 71 Cherry Street in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. He was the father of early feminist

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and Unitarian minister

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. Through the latter, he is also the great-grandfather of inventor and thinker

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. and, through Arthur's brother Richard Frederick Fuller, the great-great-great-grandfather of US Treasury Secretary

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.Ancestry of Timothy Geithner
/ref> He died suddenly of cholera, intestate and insolvent, in

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, on October 1, 1835, and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Timothy 1778 births 1835 deaths Members of the Massachusetts Governor's Council Massachusetts state senators Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Harvard University alumni Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Deaths from cholera Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts People from Chilmark, Massachusetts