Adjutant General Allen Curtis Fuller (1822 - 6 December 1901) was the adjutant general of Illinois

Adjutant general of Illinois

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 from November 11, 1861 to January 1, 1865, during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Biography

Allen C. Fuller was born in Connecticut in 1822. He studied in Towanda

Towanda, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania and under James Rood Doolittle

James Rood Doolittle

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 in Warsaw, New York

Warsaw (town), New York

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. He became a lawyer and lived in Belvidere

Belvidere, Illinois

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, Illinois from 1846 until his death in 1901. From before the war until July 1862, he was a judge of the Illinois Circuit Courts

Illinois Circuit Courts

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. After the war, he was elected as the representative of Boone County in the Illinois House of Representatives

Illinois House of Representatives

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. He became Speaker of the House, and afterwards served two terms in the Illinois Senate

Illinois Senate

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 from 1867 until 1872.

In 1890, he built a Queen Anne style summer house near Lake Superior

Lake Superior

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 in Bayfield

Bayfield, Wisconsin

Bayfield is a city in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 611 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Henry Bayfield, a British Royal Topographic Engineer who explored the region in 1822-23....

, Wisconsin, in search of relief for his asthma or hay fever. The house is now known as the "Old Rittenhouse Inn".

External links

• Allen C. Fuller entry at The Political Graveyard
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