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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriFrank Ballard FULKERSON
(1866-1936)
FULKERSON, Frank Ballard,
a Representative from Missouri; born near Edinburg, Grundy County,
Mo., March 5, 1866; moved with his parents to a farm near
Higginsville, Lafayette County, Mo.; attended the common schools
and was graduated from Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., in 1888;
taught school for two years; attended the law department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was graduated from the law
department of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1892; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Warrensburg, Mo.; city attorney of Warrensburg 1893-1895;
prosecuting attorney of Johnson County in 1895 and 1896; moved to
Holden, Mo., in 1897 and to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1900 and continued
the practice of law; city attorney of Holden in 1899 and 1900;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4,
1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906
to the Sixtieth Congress; unsuccessful Republican candidate for
attorney general of Missouri in 1908; unsuccessful candidate for
mayor of St. Joseph, Mo., in 1908; resumed the practice of law in
St. Joseph, Mo.; delegate to several Republican State conventions;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908; president
of the city police board in 1909; city counselor in 1913 and 1914;
returned to Lafayette County, Mo., in 1918 and continued the
practice of law; also engaged in agricultural pursuits near
Higginsville; prosecuting attorney of Lafayette County 1921-1925;
died near Higginsville, Mo., August 30, 1936; interment in
Higginsville City Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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