Thomas B. Fugate

Thomas Bacon Fugate (April 10, 1899 – September 22, 1980) was an American businessman, banker, farmer and politician. He served in the United States representative from Virginia in the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses. Fugate was elected to Congress as a Democrat.

Early life Thomas Fugate was born on April 10, 1899, on a farm near Tazewell, in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He attended public schools before pursuing higher education at the University of Tennessee and Lincoln Memorial University. In 1918, he married Lillian Rowlett, a union that produced five children. Soon after, Fugate moved his family to Ewing, Virginia, to pursue his business interests. Like his father, Thomas Fugate's business focused on banking, trade and farming.

Fugate chose not to stand for a third term in Congress, instead returning to his farming and business interests in Ewing.

Fugate died on September 22, 1980, at the age of 81.