Thomas Charles Fuller

Thomas Charles Fuller was a prominent politician of the Confederate States of America and later a federal judge.

Biography

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he was the youngest of three children born to Thomas, a merchant, and Catherine Eleanor 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 at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina] from 1849 to 1851 and later returned to Fayetteville and established a law practice there with his brother Bartholomew.
He married Caroline Douglas Whitehead on November 5, 1857, and they had 11 children.
Upon the outbreak of the American [Civil War] he served as a colonel in the Confederate Army. He represented North Carolina in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865 as a Whig.
In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison appointed Fuller as a justice of the United States Court of Private Land Claims.
He died in Raleigh on October 20, 1901.