Career
Fulton was military secretary to General Andrew Jackson during the First Seminole War in 1818. In 1820, he settled in Florence, Alabama and became county judge in 1822.
Fulton was appointed Secretary of the Arkansas Territory by President Andrew Jackson in 1829. Fulton moved to Little Rock to take up his new responsibility.
He served as Secretary until 1835, when he was appointed Governor of the Territory. When Arkansas was admitted as a state in 1836, Fulton became one of its first Senators. In the Senate he became a member of the Democratic Party. Fulton remained a Senator until his death in 1844.
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