[1][2][3][4] He was a descendant of the ancient patrician house of the Furii, which filled the highest offices of the Roman state from the early decades of the Republic to the first century AD.
[1][7][8] Furius is first mentioned in 441 BC, when he was consul with Manius Papirius Crassus; their year of office was uneventful.
The two colleagues approved the construction of the Villa Publica in the Campus Martius, using the new building to conduct the census; based on a passage in Livy apparently indicating that the "first" census was held in the year of its construction, Mommsen regards the censorship of Furius and Geganius to be the first "authentic" example of that magistracy, although multiple sources, including Livy, name Lucius Papirius Mugillanus and Lucius Sempronius Atratinus as the first censors, appointed in 443 BC.
His colleagues were Titus Quinctius Poenus Cincinnatus, Marcus Postumius Albinus Regillensis, and Aulus Cornelius Cossus.
Furius was defeated in a battle against Veii, leading to the appointment of Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus as dictator to conduct the war.