Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Franklin Oliver Fuller

Full Name: Franklin Oliver Fuller
Birth date: November 2, 1873
Death date: August 9, 1934

Terms of Service

House, 35th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/9/1917 - 12/4/1918
Democrat
Speaker
House, 34th Legislature
1/12/1915 - 1/9/1917
Democrat
House, 33rd Legislature
1/14/1913 - 1/12/1915
Democrat
House, 31st ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/12/1909 - 1/10/1911
Democrat
House, 30th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/8/1907 - 1/12/1909
Democrat

(1) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture) 1910.
(2) COLDSPRING, TEXAS. "Coldspring is at the junction of State Highway 150 and Farm roads 1514, 946, and 2025, sixty-five miles north of Houston in central San Jacinto County . . . in 1850 the [post office] name was changed to Cold Spring, officially respelled Coldspring in 1894." Handbook of Texas Online .
(3) Cold Springs. House Journal .
(4) Fuller resigned 12/4/1918. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Cold Spring, San Jacinto County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(6) Cold Springs. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

43rd Legislature, 3rd C.S., 9/19/1934, p. 241. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Franklin Oliver Fuller, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. F.O. Fuller, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.O. Foller, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.O. Fuller, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.O. Fuller, State Preservation Board
Photograph. F.O. Fuller, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Franklin Oliver Fuller, birth date 11/2/1873 in Nacogdoches, death date 8/9/1934 in Houston, Harris County, lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
United States Army, Captain, Army Service Corps, World War I. Franklin Oliver Fuller, residence in Coldspring, San Jacinto County, Texas, birth date 11/2/1873. FamilySearch Texas, World War I Records, 1917-1920 (Texas Military Forces Museum, Austin) .
Franklin Oliver Fuller (1873-1934), burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County. Find a Grave .
Occupation and religious affiliation, 34th Legislature. "Occupations of Members of Legislative House," 3/14/1915, p. 4. Galveston Daily News .
FULLER, FRANKLIN OLIVER (1873-1934). Death date 8/9/1934. Handbook of Texas Online .
Obituary and photo, "Ex-Speaker of House at Austin Dies," 8/9/1934, pp. 1, 17. Death date Thursday, 8/9/1934. Houston Chronicle .
45th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Franklin Oliver Fuller. Photo and biographical sketch. "In 1920 he moved from Coldspring to Houston . . . " Death date 8/7/1934. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Biographical sketch and portrait, F.O. Fuller, pp. 689-691. Texas, the Country and Its Men: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive 1918.