Henry A. Bullard Explained

Birthname:Henry Adams Bullard
Henry A. Bullard
Image Name:Henry Adams Bullard.jpg
State:Louisiana
District:2nd
Term:December 5, 1850March 3, 1851
Preceded:Charles Magill Conrad
Succeeded:Joseph Aristide Landry
State2:Louisiana
District2:3rd
Term2:March 4, 1831January 4, 1834
Preceded2:Walter Hampden Overton
Succeeded2:Rice Garland
Birth Date:September 9, 1788
Birth Place:Pepperell, Massachusetts, US
Death Place:New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Spouse:Sarah Maria Kaiser
Restingplace:Girod Street Cemetery (until 1959)
Party:National Republican (3rd Dist.)
Whig (2nd Dist.)

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.

Biography

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

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

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

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.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Weil . Julie Zauzmer . More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. . 5 May 2024 . . 10 January 2022. Database at
  2. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001049 Congressional Biography
  3. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#413.50.38 Henry Adams Bullard