FULTON JAMES G.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110070-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 70
• Content Type: BIO

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BIOGRAPHY
FULTON, JAMES G., Republican, of Dormont (Pittsburgh), Pa.; born in
Dormont Borough, the son of James Ernest and Emilie Fetterman
Fulton; grandson of Rev. Dr. John Lockhart Fulton and Judge
Charles Sylvester Fetterman, families active since the 1700's in
civic affairs in Western Pennsylvania and the South Hills section
of Pittsburgh; graduate of South Hills High School; Pennsylvania
State College (now Pennsylvania State University), A. B. degree;
Harvard Law School, LL. B. degree; studied 2 years in Fine Arts
Department of Carnegie Institute of Technology; owner and pub-
lisher Mount Lebanon News, the Boro News, Grafton-Ingram
Times, The News (South Hills), and the East Liberty Tribune,
Pittsburgh, Pa. ; farmer; lawyer, formerly partner with Pittsburgh
banking law firm; member of the Allegheny County Board of Law
Examiners from 1934 to 1942; solicitor for Dormont Borough;
State Senator for the Forty-fifth district of Pennsylvania, 1939-40;
volunteered for military service and commissioned lieutenant in
the United States Naval Reserve on active duty in 1942; elected to
the Seventy-ninth Congress on November 7, 1944; returned from
the Philippine combat area in the Pacific to take seat in Congress
on February 2, 1945; reelected to the Eightieth, Eighty-first,
Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Con-
gresses; member of Board of Visitors, Annapolis Naval Academy, on
appointment by Speaker, 1947; chairman, special subcommittee on
displaced persons of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eightieth Con-
gress; United States delegate to United Nations Conference on Trade
and Employment at Habana, 1947-48, on appointment by the Presi-
dent; chairman subcommittee for Europe, of House Foreign Affairs
Committee, Eighty-third Congress; member of American Judicature
Society and American Academy of Political and Social Science;
Congressional office address in Pittsburgh, 502 L Federal Build' G
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