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Henry A. Bullard

Henry Adams Bullard (September 9, 1788 – April 17, 1851) was a lawyer, slaveholder, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana.[1] He served two terms as a National Republican and one as a Whig.

Henry Adams Bullard
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 2nd district
In office
December 5, 1850 – March 3, 1851
Preceded byCharles Magill Conrad
Succeeded byJoseph Aristide Landry
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1831 – January 4, 1834
Preceded byWalter Hampden Overton
Succeeded byRice Garland
Personal details
Born(1788-09-09)September 9, 1788
Pepperell, Massachusetts, US
DiedApril 17, 1851(1851-04-17) (aged 62)
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Political partyNational Republican (3rd Dist.)
Whig (2nd Dist.)
SpouseSarah Maria Kaiser

Biography edit

Bullard was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard, and studied law in Boston and Philadelphia. In Louisiana, he resided in Natchitoches, where he practiced law,[2] and in Alexandria,[3] as well as in New Orleans.

He accompanied General José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois on his military expedition into Spanish Texas in 1813.

Congress edit

He was later elected as an anti-Jacksonian to the 22nd and 23rd Congresses, resigned in 1834, and later served as a Whig in the 31st Congress.

Career edit

Henry A. Bullard was also a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court (1834–39) and Secretary of State of Louisiana (1838–39). He was also a professor of civil law at the University of Louisiana Law School (1847) and served in the Louisiana House of Representatives (1850).

Death and burial edit

He died in New Orleans and was interred at the Girod Street Cemetery. That burying ground was destroyed in 1959 and unclaimed remains were commingled with 15,000 others and deposited beneath Hope Mausoleum, St. John's Cemetery, New Orleans.

References edit

  1. ^ Weil, Julie Zauzmer (10 January 2022). "More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Database at "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-13, retrieved 2024-04-29
  2. ^ Congressional Biography, accessed 21 Nov 2015.
  3. ^ Henry Adams Bullard at The Political Graveyard, accessed 21 Nov 2015.

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Political offices
Preceded by
Alfred E. Forstall
Secretary of State of Louisiana
1838–1839
Succeeded by
Levi Pierce
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district

March 4, 1831 – January 4, 1834
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district

December 5, 1850 – March 3, 1851
Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by
Alexander Porter
Court reconfigured
Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
1834 – 1839
1840 – 1846
Succeeded by
Pierre Adolphe Rost
Court reconfigured

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