词条 | Levi K. Fuller |
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| image = Fuller.jpg | order1 = 44th | office1 = Governor of Vermont | term_start1 = October 6, 1892 | term_end1 = October 4, 1894 | lieutenant1 = F. Stewart Stranahan | predecessor1 = Carroll S. Page | successor1 =Urban A. Woodbury | order2 = 35th | office2 = Lieutenant Governor of Vermont | term_start2 = October 7, 1886 | term_end2 = October 4, 1888 | governor2 = F. Stewart Stranahan | predecessor2 = Ebenezer J. Ormsbee | successor2 =Urban A. Woodbury | office3= Member of the Vermont Senate | term3= 1880–1881 | birth_date = February 24, 1841 | birth_place = Westmoreland, New Hampshire | death_date = October 10, 1896 (aged 55) | death_place = Brattleboro, Vermont | spouse = {{marriage|Abigail Emily Estey (born September 1, 1842) |1865|October 10, 1896|end=his death}} | profession = Engineer, Inventor and Executive, Estey Organ Company | party = Republican }} Levi Knight Fuller (February 24, 1841{{spaced ndash}}October 10, 1896) was the 44th Governor of Vermont from 1892 to 1894. Early lifeBorn in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and attended Brattleboro High School and later apprenticed as a machinist in Boston, also working as telegrapher to finance additional studies in engineering and manufacturing. Career with Estey Organ CompanyFuller became an engineer and executive with Brattleboro's Estey Organ Company, and in 1865 married Abby Estey, the owner's daughter. He patented over one hundred inventions, including international standard pitch, an innovation that was adopted by manufacturers of musical instruments throughout the world, and called by the maker of Steinway pianos "perhaps the most important achievement in the annals of musical history." Philanthropy and other pursuitsFuller was also an astronomer, and built his own observatory and library. He was a founder of North Carolina's Shaw University, the South's oldest historically African-American college. Fuller served as a director of the Brattleboro Savings Bank and a trustee of Brattleboro Free Library. Fuller was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He was active in the Sons of the American Revolution, and served as president of the Vermont chapter. The University of Vermont conferred Fuller an honorary master's degree in 1893, and Norwich University presented him an honorary LL.D. degree in 1895. Military serviceIn the 1870s he organized the Fuller Light Battery. Fuller equipped and funded the unit for two years, when it was accepted into the Vermont National Guard. As a result of Fuller's efforts, the Vermont National Guard was the first state to field rifled artillery. The Fuller Light Battery was noted for its efficiency and accuracy, and won numerous gunnery competitions. In 1887 he was appointed a colonel on the staff of Governor Julius Converse. Political careerA Republican, he served as a state senator from 1880 to 1881, and the 34th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1886 to 1887. In 1892 Fuller was selected as the Republican nominee for governor. He won the general election and served the single two-year term then available to Vermont governors under the dominant Republican party's "Mountain Rule." (Under the Mountain Rule, the governorship rotated between residents of the east and west side of the Green Mountains, and governors served two years.) Active in the "good roads" movement of the late 19th century, Fuller's term was notable for the creation of Vermont's first statewide effort to regulate their construction and maintenance, the Board of Highway Commissioners. Post-gubernatorial career and deathAfter serving as governor he returned to his work at Estey Organ. Fuller's sudden death in Brattleboro on October 10, 1896, just two years after leaving office was attributed to overwork and anemia.[1] He was buried in Brattleboro's Morningside Cemetery.[2] References1. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Colonel Levi P. Fuller, Death of a Prominent Vermont Man Once Governor |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/782617522.html?dids=782617522:782617522&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+10,+1896&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=COLONEL+LEVI+P.+FULLER&pqatl=google |quote= |newspaper=Hartford Courant |date=October 10, 1896 }} 2. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Funeral of Ex Governor Fuller of Vermont |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R8szAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_yIIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4050,4286605&dq=levi+knight+fuller&hl=en |quote= |newspaper=Boston Evening Transcript |date=October 14, 1896 }} Further reading
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