Henry A. Bullard
{{Short description|American judge}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| birthname= Henry Adams Bullard
| name = Henry A. Bullard
| image name= Henry Adams Bullard.jpg
| state= Louisiana
| district= 2nd
| term= December 5, 1850{{spaced ndash}}March 3, 1851
| preceded= Charles Magill Conrad
| succeeded= Joseph Aristide Landry
| state2= Louisiana
| district2= 3rd
| term2= March 4, 1831{{spaced ndash}}January 4, 1834
| preceded2= Walter Hampden Overton
| succeeded2= Rice Garland
| birth_date= {{Birth date|1788|9|9|mf=y}}
| birth_place= Pepperell, Massachusetts, US
| death_date= {{death date and age|1851|4|17|1788|9|9|mf=y}}
| death_place= New Orleans, Louisiana, US
| spouse= Sarah Maria Kaiser
| profession=
| 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.{{cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Julie Zauzmer |title=More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=5 May 2024 |publisher=Washington Post |date=10 January 2022}} Database at {{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2024-04-29}} 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,[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001049 Congressional Biography], accessed 21 Nov 2015. and in Alexandria,[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#413.50.38 Henry Adams Bullard] at The Political Graveyard, accessed 21 Nov 2015. 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.
References
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External links
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- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#413.50.38 Henry Adams Bullard entry] at The Political Graveyard
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Category:People from Pepperell, Massachusetts
Category:American people of English descent
Category:Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
Category:Secretaries of state of Louisiana
Category:Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Category:Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court
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Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Burials at Girod Street Cemetery
Category:19th-century Louisiana state court judges
Category:19th-century American lawyers
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