Richard Fuller (minister)

Richard Fuller (April 22, 1804 - October 20, 1876) was one of the founders of the Southern Baptist movement.

Richard Fuller

Born to a respected family in Beaufort, South Carolina, he receive his early instruction from Dr. William T. Brautly. At the age of seventeen, Fuller entered Harvard University in Massachusetts. Despite health problems, he graduated with his class in 1824.

Fuller became an attorney in South Carolina, but despite his success in that trade, he soon abandoned it for religious ministry. He married a wealthy widow whose affairs he attended to as an attorney, and converted under the guidance of preacher Daniel Baker. In preaching, Fuller closely copied the style of French preacher James Saurin. In 1844, Fuller was one of the founders of the Southern Baptist movement, which split from the Northern Baptists over the issue of Slavery in the United States, which Fuller and the Southern Baptists supported.

Sources

• Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Lives of the leaders of the church universal, from Ignatius to the present time (1880), p. 697-703.