Robert Burwell Fulton (April 8, 1849 – May 29, 1919) was an American university administrator.

[1][2] Additionally, he served as president of the National Association of State Universities for five years.

[1][3] He married Annie Rose Garland Fulton (1843-1893), the daughter of Landon Garland (1810-1895), who served as the second President of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia from 1836 to 1846, third president of the University of Alabama from 1855 to 1865, and first chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1875 to 1893.

They had two sons and one daughter who died in infancy, and one son who survived: Maurice Garland Fulton (Professor of English at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico).

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