Frank B. Fulkerson

Who was Frank B. Fulkerson?

Frank Ballard Fulkerson was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born near Edinburg, Missouri, Fulkerson moved with his parents to a farm near Higginsville, Missouri. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, in 1888. He then taught school for two years.

Fulkerson attended the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating from the law department of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1892. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Warrensburg, Missouri. After serving as city attorney of Warrensburg from 1893 to 1895, he was prosecuting attorney of Johnson County for two years 1895 and 1896. Fulkerson's law practice continued as he moved first to Holden, Missouri in 1897 and then to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1900. In 1899 and 1900 he served as city attorney of Holden.

Fulkerson was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress. However, his bid for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress was unsuccessful. He also made unsuccessful bids for attorney general of Missouri in 1908 and for mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri in that same year.