Abram Fulkerson (13 May 1834-17 December 1902) was a member of the US House of Representatives (RA-VA 9) from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1883, succeeding James Buchanan Richmond and preceding Henry Bowen.
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Abram Fulkerson was born in Washington County, Virginia in 1834, and he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1857 and taught school in Palmyra, Virginia and Rogersville, Tennessee before serving in the 19th Tennessee Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. His brother Samuel Vance Fulkerson was killed while leading the 37th Virginia Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gaines' Mill in 1862. Fulkerson was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Chickamauga, and the Siege of Petersburg, and he was captured and imprisoned in Delaware and at Charleston. After the war, he became a lawyer in Bristol, Virginia, and he served in the House of Delegates from 1871 to 1875, in the State Senate from 1877 to 1881, and in the US House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883 as a Readjuster Democrat. He died in Bristol in 1902.