Fuller was born in
Chilmark, Massachusetts. His father, also named Timothy, the first settled minister of
Princeton, Massachusetts, was third in descent, from Thomas, who emigrated from England in 1638. The younger Timothy received a classical education and graduated from
Harvard University in 1801 with second honors. He taught at
Leicester Academy, then studied law with
Levi Lincoln. He was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Boston. He served as member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives, as a State councilor and served in the
Massachusetts State Senate from 1813 to 1816. Fuller was elected as a
Democratic-Republican to the
Fifteenth through the
Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as an Adams–Clay Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1825). He served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Seventeenth Congress. He was distinguished as an orator, making effective speeches in behalf of the
Seminole Indians, and against the
Missouri compromise. He was an ardent supporter of
John Quincy Adams, and published a pamphlet entitled "The Election for the Presidency Considered," which was widely circulated. and, through Arthur's brother Richard Frederick Fuller, the great-great-great-grandfather of US Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner. He died suddenly of cholera, intestate and insolvent, in
Groton, Massachusetts, on October 1, 1835, and was interred in
Mount Auburn Cemetery in
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