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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaBULLARD, Henry Adams
(1788—1851)
BULLARD, Henry Adams, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Pepperell, Mass., September 9, 1788; was graduated from Harvard University in 1807; studied law in Boston and Philadelphia; was admitted to the bar about 1812; accompanied Gen. José Álvarez Toledo as military secretary on his revolutionary expedition into Texas in 1813; moved to Natchitoches, La., and commenced the practice of law; appointed district judge in 1822, but resigned after a few years’ service, returning to the bench later for another period of service; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, until January 4, 1834, when he resigned, having been appointed judge; judge of the supreme court of Louisiana from 1834 to 1846; acted as secretary of state of Louisiana in 1839; resumed the practice of law in New Orleans, La.; appointed professor of civil law in the Law School of Louisiana in 1847; served as a member of the State house of representatives in 1850; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles M. Conrad and served from December 5, 1850, to March 3, 1851; died in New Orleans on April 17, 1851; interment in Girod Street Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bonquois, Dora J. “The Career of Henry Adams Bullard, Louisiana Jurist, Legislator, and Educator.” Louisiana Historical Quarterly
23 (October 1940): 999-1106.
Bonquois, Dora J. “The Career of Henry Adams Bullard, Louisiana Jurist, Legislator and Educator.” Louisiana Historical Quarterly
23 (1940): 999-1106.
Bullard, Henry Adams. A discourse delivered before the Historical Society of Louisiana, January 13, 1836
. New Orleans: Printed by B. Levy, 1836.
———. A discourse on the life and character of the Hon. François Xavier Martin, late Senior Judge of the Supreme Court, of the State of Louisiana / pronounced, at the request of the Bar of New-Orleans
. [New Orleans?: N.p.], 1847.
———. Speech of Mr. Bullard, of Louisiana, on the tariff: In the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, June 15, 1832
. [Washington, D.C.: N.p., 1832].
French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin). Memoir of Hon. Henry A. Bullard, LL. D., President of the Louisiana Historical Society
. New-York: N.p., 1851.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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