Fullilove, Samford Christian;  Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Fullilove, Samford Christian, of Shreveport, is superintendent of 
public safety, and regarded as one of the leaders of the bar of 
North Louisiana.  He was born Jan. 23, 1877, in Caddo parish, the 
son of Thomas Pope and Elizabeth Jane (Samford) Fullilove.  Since 
the year 1847 the Fullilove family has been established in Caddo 
Parish, Thomas P. Fullilove and his father, James Greer Fullilove, 
having emigrated from Georgia to engage in the planting business, 
in the Liberty Church neighborhood.  The paternal grandfather of 
Samford C. was named John Fullilove, and was a native of Scotland, 
who came to the United States with a large number of his people to 
colonize Georgia.  Mrs. Fullilove, mother of the subject of this 
sketch, was a native of the Eastern part of Alabama, daughter of 
William P. Samford, of Irish descent.  Six of the 10 children that 
composed the family, of which Samford C. Fullilove was the 9th in 
order of birth, grew to maturity.  His education was obtained in 
the public schools of Caddo parish and at the following institutions
of learning: Centenary college, Jackson, La. (graduate, 1896); 
Columbian, now the George Washington University, Washington City 
(graduate in law, 1901); Tulane Law School (graduate, 1902); and 
after receiving his diploma from Tulane Mr. Fullilove returned to 
Shreveport to practice his profession.  The copartnership of 
Fullilove & Mills, attorneys, formed in 1902, was dissolved in 
1907 when the senior member of the firm was elected city judge, 
a position he resigned in 1910 to accept his present office of 
superintendent of public safety, still continuing, however, his 
practice of law.  Mr. Fullilove is knight commander of the Kappa 
Alpha order, a college fraternity, and is affiliated with the 
Woodmen of the World.  He married, in 1905, Miss Amanda 
Stringfellow, the daughter of T. L. Stringfellow, of Shreveport.  
Their family consists of 3 children:  Samford C., Jr.,  Levert S. 
and  Howell H. Fullilove.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, 
Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic 
Form (volume 3), p. 174.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.