Fuller Harding

Who was Fuller Harding?

Lloyd Fuller Harding was an attorney in Campbellsville, Kentucky, who served in 1942 as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from District 36. He was also for twenty-four years the county attorney of Taylor County.

Harding was born in Campbellsville to Abel Turner Harding, also an attorney, and the former Mary Moore. He graduated from Campbellsville High School in 1933 and received his undergraduate degree from Carson-Newman College, a Baptist liberal arts institution in Jefferson City, Tennessee. He obtained his legal degree from the University of Louisville School of Law in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a member of the Campbellsville Baptist Church. After a year, Harding left the legislature to enter the United States Navy during World War II, having served for three and a half years. He had succeeded fellow Republican lawmaker Herschel T. Baker of Columbia, the seat of Adair County, who served from 1936 to 1937 and again from 1940 to 1941.

Robert S. Clark, retired vice president for academic affairs at Baptist-affiliated Campbellsville University, said that Harding's father was instrumental in soliciting funds in the early 1900s to open Russell Creek Academy, which in 1906 became Campbellsville College, the forerunner of Campbellsville University. Fuller Harding served for five years on the CU board of trustees.