Charles Eugene Fuller
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Charles Eugene Fuller (March 31, 1849 - June 25, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Belvidere, Illinois, Fuller attended the common schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Belvidere, Illinois. City attorney of Belvidere in 1875 and 1876. He served as prosecuting attorney for Boone County 1876-1878. He served in the State senate 1878-1882. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1882-1888. He was again a member of the State senate 1888-1892. Raised a provisional regiment for the war with Spain and was commissioned colonel of the Thirteenth Illinois Infantry by Governor Tanner. He served as judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit 1897-1903. He served as vice president of the People's Bank of Belvidere for many years.
Fuller was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.
Fuller was elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death at a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, June 25, 1926. He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses). He was interred in Belvidere Cemetery, Belvidere, Illinois.
