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2968 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSauthor of the bill providing for the payment of the bonded indebtednessof the state; was influential as chafe-man of the special judiciary committeeof the House of Representatives during the legislative session of 1909, andas chairman of the general judiciary committee in the session of 1911-12.In the general assembly of 1915 he was chairman of the appropriation committee; in 1908 he served as a member of the Western & Atlantic Railroad;and in 1910 he was a member of the governor's mansion committee. Thesession of 1912 found Mr. Fullbright a member of the judicial reform committee, and in 1913 he was a member of the committee for the re-leasing ofthe Western & Atlantic Railroad. He was author of the bill excludingfrom taxation the various endowments for colleges and other educationalinstitutions in the state, and in the session of 1915 he was the floor-leaderof the House in the interests of the prohibition movement. In short, hehas written his name and influence deeply upon the history of Georgia legislation within the past eight years, and his admirable record is a very part ofstate history. A local publication paid his administration tribute in thefollowing well chosen words:"Representative Henry Fullbright is to be returned to the House fromBurke County without opposition a most deserved tribute to a genuinelyworthy and useful member. No county is represented better than Fullbrightrepresents Burke too few are represented half so well."During several terms of service, Fullbright has worked incessantly forthe advancement not only of his immediate constituency, but for the entireState. He is a Statewide figure not merely a local representative. Clean,capable and constructive, he has won a large place for himself in the heartsof all the people of this State he is a thoroughly high-class man."It is rumored that Fullbright is to be a candidate for Speaker of thenext House. Beyond a doubt he has demonstrated time and again his completefitness for that most important position.''Mr. Fullbright is an active and valued member of the Georgia State BarAssociation, is a leader in the ranks of the democratic party in the easternpart of the state, and is a zealous and influential-member of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South. In the church of this denomination at Waynesborohe is chairman of the board of stewards and teacher of the women's Bibleclass in the Sunday school. In 1910 he was a delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held at Asheville, NorthCarolina, and in 1914 he was a delegate to its general conference held atOklahoma City, Oklahoma. His wife is prominent in local church work, as anactive member of the missionary society and other women's organizations inconnection with the church at Waynesboro, where also she is a popular figurein the representative social activities of the community, the attractive familyhome being a center of gracious hospitality. In addition to his residenceproperty in Waynesboro, Mr. Fullbright is the owner of well improvedfarms in Columbia County, which properties he rents to desirable tenants.On the 16th of December, 1897, at Woodstoek, Cherokee County, wassolemnized the marriage of Mr. Fullbright to Miss Chessie Dobbs, daughterof Cicero C. and Sally (Dupree) Dobbs, well known residents of that county.Mr. and Mrs. Fullbright have four children: Iris was born at Waynesboro,on the 20th of November, 1898; Eloise was born August 25, 1901, at Woodstock,where her parents were visiting at the time in 'the home of kinsfolkof her mother; and Sarah and Henry J., Jr., are natives of Waynesboro,where the former was born May 31, 1904, and the latter May 24, 1906.DR. THOMAS J. SIMMONS, president of Brenau College, Gainesville, Georgia,was born at Wake Forest, North Carolina, April 18, 1864, and was preparedfor college in a private academy in his home town. Entering the college, hegraduated with the degree of Master of Arts in June, 1883. In 1890, after