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| A Dozen Yellow Roses/Poor Little Paper Boy record jacket (detail), 1967, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
FULTON, Richard Harmon, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Nashville, Davidson County,
Tenn., January 27, 1927; graduated from the public schools of Nashville and
attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; served in the United States
Navy in 1945 and 1946; member, State senate, 1958-1960; engaged in business and
was a real estate broker; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964;
elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and reelected to the six succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1963, until his resignation August 14,
1975; mayor, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn.,
August 14, 1975, to October 5, 1987; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in
1978 and 1986 in the Tennessee gubernatorial primary; established private firm
in governmental relations; is a resident of Nashville, Tenn.
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