The elder Fuller made a fortune as an early dealer of Packards and Cadillacs and was the Governor of Massachusetts from 1925 to 1929.

[2] He attended Dartmouth College for military officer training and served the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

[4] Fuller wrestled at Milton, Dartmouth College, and Harvard and won the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) 191-pound (87 kg) New England Championship.

In 1957, he began managing Tom McNeeley and was in his corner for his 1961 world heavyweight title fight loss to Floyd Patterson.

[1] After Dancer's Image won Governor's Gold Cup at Bowie Race Track, Fuller turned down $1 million for the horse.

[9] At the 1968 Kentucky Derby, a bad break out of the gate caused the Dancer’s Image to fall to last place.

[10] Three days later, it was announced that Dancer's Image was disqualified after traces of phenylbutazone, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) commonly used to relieve inflammation of the joints were discovered in the mandatory post-race urinalysis.

[11] Fuller contended that he had been punished for his support of civil rights and his decision to donate a winner's purse to the widow of Martin Luther King, whose demonstration against housing discrimination in Louisville had disrupted Derby events the previous year.

"[14] Fuller took legal action and in 1970 a Kentucky Court awarded first-place money to Dancer's Image.

He later revealed that he had left the race after a masked gunman jumped into Fuller's car and threatened his life and the lives of his wife and children.