 She graduated from Greenville (Baptist) Female College in Greenville, South Carolina, which eventually merged with Furman University.Fulmer's husband, Hampton P. Fulmer, was a United States Representative from 1923 to 1944.She was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by his death in 1944, and served from November 7, 1944, to January 3, 1945.