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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
DiedApril 17, 1851(1851-04-17) (aged 62)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Political partyNational Republican (3rd Dist.)
Whig (2nd Dist.)
SpouseSarah Maria Kaiser

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

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,[1] and in Alexandria,[2] as well as in New Orleans.

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

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

  1. ^ Congressional Biography, accessed 21 Nov 2015.
  2. ^ Henry Adams Bullard at The Political Graveyard, accessed 21 Nov 2015.

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

  • United States Congress. "Henry A. Bullard (id: B001049)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Henry Adams Bullard entry at The Political Graveyard
  • Henry A. Bullard at Find a Grave
Political offices
Preceded by Secretary of State of Louisiana
1838–1839
Succeeded by
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