ALVAN TUFTS FULLER

Fuller, Alvan Tufts (1878-1958) A Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., February 27, 1878; attended the public schools; engaged in the bicycle business in 1896; founder and owner of the Packard Motor Car Co. of Boston; member of the State house of representatives in 1915; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916; elected as an Independent Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1917, to January 5, 1921; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1921-1924; elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1924 and assumed his duties January 7, 1925; reelected in 1926 for the term expiring January 1, 1929; chairman of the board of Cadillac-Oldsmobile Co., of Boston; did not accept compensation for services while in public office; died in Boston, Mass., April 30, 1958; remains were cremated and interred in East Cemetery, Rye Beach, N.H.
Son of Alvan Bond Fuller and Flora A. (Tufts) Fuller
Married, July 12, 1910, to Viola Davenport
Born: May 29, 1882 in Somerville, Massachusetts
Died: 1962
Children Sex Birth
Lydia Fuller F October 27, 1913 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mary Fuller F January 25, 1916 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alvan Tufts Fuller M Feb. 5, 1918 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Peter D Fuller M b. March 22, 1923 Boston, Massachusetts

Sources:
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
U.S. Federal Census
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell