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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaRobert BULLOCK
(1828-1905)
BULLOCK, Robert, a
Representative from Florida; born in Greenville, Pitt County, N.C.,
December 8, 1828; attended the common schools; moved to Florida in
1844 and settled at Fort King, then a United States Government
post, near the present city of Ocala; taught in the first school in
Sumter County; clerk of the circuit court of Marion County from
November 13, 1849, to November 11, 1855; commissioned by the
Governor in 1856 a captain to raise a mounted company of volunteers
for the suppression of Indian hostilities; the company was mustered
into the service of the United States and served eighteen months,
until the cessation of hostilities; entered the Confederate Army as
captain in the Seventh Regiment Florida Volunteers in 1862 and
served until the close of the war; promoted to lieutenant colonel
in 1863 and to brigadier general in 1865; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1866 and began practice in Marion County; judge of
probate court 1866-1868; member of the State house of
representatives in 1879; again clerk of the circuit court of Marion
County from 1881 to 1889; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first
and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1892; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; elected judge of Marion County in 1903 and served until
his death in Ocala, Marion County, Fla., July 27, 1905; interment
in Evergreen Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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