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|death_place=Minden, Louisiana​

|death_place=Minden, Louisiana​

|spouse=Alma Bright Fuller (married 1891–1920, his death)​

|spouse=Alma Bright Fuller (married 1891–1920, his death)​

|children=Lee Aura Fuller Griffin<br>​

|children=Lee Aura Fuller Griffin​

Xenia Doyle Fuller Ruffin<br>​

Xenia Doyle Fuller Ruffin<br>​

Miriam Rupert Fuller White​<br>

Miriam Rupert Fuller White​<br>

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'''Thomas Wafer Fuller''' (May 28, 1867 &ndash; December 20, 1920) was an [[educator]] and [[newspaper]]man from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]],<ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/images/teachers/teachers.htm|title=Webster Parish historian John Agan, "Webster Superintendents of Schools"|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 6, 2011; website closed; information no longer available}}</ref> who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the Louisiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Senate Directpory 1880-Present|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=March 21, 2011}}</ref>​

'''Thomas Wafer Fuller''' (May 28, 1867 &ndash; December 20, 1920) was an [[educator]] and [[newspaper]]man from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]],<ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindenmemories.org/images/teachers/teachers.htm|title=Webster Parish historian John Emerson Agan, "Webster Superintendents of Schools"|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 6, 2011; website closed; information no longer available}}</ref> who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the Louisiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900.<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Senate Directpory 1880-Present|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=March 21, 2011}}</ref>​

 

Fuller's Senate colleague from Bossier Parish was John Augustus Way Lowry, Jr. (1848-1899), known as  J.A. W. Lowry;; the two represented Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes. Thereafter, a single-member district was created for Bossier and Webster parishes with Elam Sparks "E.S."  Dortch (1841-1943) of Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish as the senator from 1900 to 1908. One of the Senate colleagues of Fuller and Lowry was Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason (1852-1924), who represented East and West Feliciana parishes, the author of the Lawrason Act, which defines the scope of municipal government in Louisiana.<ref name=legis/>​

Fuller's Senate colleague from Bossier Parish was John Augustus Way Lowry, Jr. (1848-1899), known as  J.A. W. Lowry;; the two represented Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes. Thereafter, a single-member district was created for Bossier and Webster parishes with Elam Sparks "E.S."  Dortch (1841-1943) of Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish as the senator from 1900 to 1908. One of the Senate colleagues of Fuller and Lowry was Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason (1852-1924), who represented East and West Feliciana parishes, the author of the Lawrason Act, which defines the scope of municipal government in Louisiana.<ref name=legis/>​

 

==Background==​

==Background==

Fuller was the fifth of six children born to a planter, [[attorney]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] captain, and district attorney, Thomas Walker Fuller (1828–1896), a native of Houston County, [[Georgia]]. His mother was the former Margaret A. Wafer (1832–1880) of then Claiborne Parish,  from which Webster Parish was severed in 1871. Margaret Fuller was a graduate of the former Minden Female College.<ref name=twfuller/> Thomas Walker and Margaret Wafer Fuller are interred in the former Fuller Memorial Shrine Cemetery behind West Union Street in Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47481233&GRid=14323994&|title=Capt. Thomas W. Fuller|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref>​

Fuller was the fifth of six children born to a planter, [[attorney]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] captain, and district attorney, Thomas Walker Fuller (1828–1896), a native of Houston County, [[Georgia]]. His mother was the former Margaret A. Wafer (1832–1880) of then Claiborne Parish,  from which Webster Parish was severed in 1871. Margaret Fuller was a graduate of the former Minden Female College.<ref name=twfuller/> Thomas Walker and Margaret Wafer Fuller are interred in the former Fuller Memorial Shrine Cemetery behind West Union Street in Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47481233&GRid=14323994&|title=Capt. Thomas W. Fuller|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref>​

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