George Fuller (congressman)

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George Fuller (November 7, 1802 - November 24, 1888) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

George Fuller was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He moved to Pennsylvania and resided in Montrose, Pennsylvania. He engaged in mercantile pursuits.

Fuller was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Almon H. Read. He was editor of the Montrose Democrat, the Montrose Gazette, and the Susquehanna Register. He served as treasurer of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party during the last twenty-five years of his life. He died in Scranton in 1888. Interment in Montrose, Pennsylvania.

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• George Fuller (congressman) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Almon H. Read

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district 1844 - 1845

Succeeded by David Wilmot