Jerome Fuller

{{short description|American lawyer}}

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| name = Jerome Fuller

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| office = 2nd Chief Justice of the
Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court

| term_start = November 13, 1851

| term_end = 1852

| alongside = Henry Z. Hayner

| appointer = Millard Fillmore

| predecessor = Aaron Goodrich

| successor = William H. Welch

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1808|06|26}}

| birth_place = Litchfield, Connecticut, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1880|09|02|1808|06|26}}

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| resting_place = High Street Cemetery, Brockport, New York, USA

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| profession = Attorney

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Jerome Fuller (June 26, 1808 – September 2, 1880) was an American lawyer and chief justice of Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court from 1851 to 1852.

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Fuller was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1808, but details are scarce about his early years. At some point he moved to Brockport, New York.[http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/judgebio.html#fuller Biographies of Judges and Justices of the Minnesota Appellate Courts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206223510/http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/judgebio.html |date=2012-02-06 }} He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co.) in 1843, and of the New York State Senate (27th D.) in 1848 and 1849. He was the founding editor of the Albany Register newspaper.{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1852/09/01/75116742.pdf |work=The New York Times |date=September 1, 1852}} On November 13, 1851 Fuller was appointed to the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court by President Millard Fillmore following the removal of Aaron Goodrich.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1851/10/25/archives/from-washingtonappointments-for-minnesota.html|title=From Washington--Appointments for Minnesota.|work=The New York Times |date=October 25, 1851|via=NYTimes.com}} His appointment was denied by the United States Senate,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1852/09/01/archives/article-2-no-title.html|title=Article 2 -- No Title|work=The New York Times |date=September 1, 1852|via=NYTimes.com}} but news of this did not reach St. Paul until after Fuller had arrived and started work. He sat on the court's July 1852 term and continued in his post until the end of that year.

Fuller subsequently returned to Brockport, New York, where he was elected County Judge. He died on September 2, 1880, and was buried with his wife Lucy in High Street Cemetery, Brockport, N.Y.{{cite web |last1=Halsey |first1=Richard |title=Brockport Cemetery |url=https://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/brockprt.htm |website=GenWeb of Monroe County, NY |access-date=26 June 2023}}