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David Fullerton
Biography
1772 -
1843
David Fullerton was the son of Humphrey and Martha (Mitchell) Fullerton, born in the Cumberland Valley, near Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa., October 4, 1772 (his mother was the sister of state Senator David Mitchell). He attended subscription school; served as major in the War of 1812; settled in Greencastle and engaged in mercantile pursuits and banking; elected as a Republican (or Democratic-Republican) to the Sixteenth Congress and served 1819-1820, when he resigned. He resumed mercantile pursuits and banking; was elected as an Antimason to the state Senate, 1827-1839; and died in Greencastle, Pa. on February 1, 1843; interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Congressional Biographies, also: Fullerton-Mitchell Gen-forum, 2005