Hampton P. Fulmer

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Hampton Pitts Fulmer (February 3, 1875 - October 19, 1944) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 - October 19, 1944. After his death, his wife Willa L. Fulmer took over his seat.

Fulmer was born near Springfield, South Carolina. He attended the public schools and was graduated from Massey’s Business College in Columbus, Georgia in 1897. He engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits in Norway, South Carolina and also engaged in banking.

Fulmer was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives 1917-1920. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death. While in Congress, he served as chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-eighth Congresses). He had been nominated for reelection to the Seventy-ninth Congress before dying in Washington, D.C., October 19, 1944. He was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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• Hampton P. Fulmer at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Marvin Jones

Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee 1941 - 1944

Succeeded by John W. Flannagan, Jr.