Henry Adams Bullard

Henry Adams Bullard

Henry Adams Bullard (born September 9, 1788 in Pepperell , Middlesex County , Massachusetts , †  April 17, 1851 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1834 and again in the years 1850 to 1851 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Bullard studied at Harvard University until 1807 . After studying law in Boston and Philadelphia , he was admitted to the bar in 1812. In 1813 he joined an unsuccessful expedition to achieve the independence of the province of Texas from Spain . After this failed venture, he moved to Natchitoches , Louisiana, where he initially worked as a lawyer. In 1822 he was appointed district judge in his new home. He held this office intermittently for several years. Politically, Bullard joined the movement around President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay , who stood in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party , which was founded in 1828 . This anti-Jackson movement gave birth to the short-lived National Republican Party , which then became part of the Whig Party in 1835 . Bullard became a member of these two parties.

In the congressional election of 1830 Bullard was elected as a Republican in the third constituency of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Walter Hampden Overton on March 4, 1831 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 4, 1834 . There has been heated debates there since Andrew Jackson took office as the seventh US President in 1829. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In January 1834, Bullard resigned because he had been appointed judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court to succeed Alexander Porter . He held this office until 1846. In 1839 he was also Secretary of State and acting officer of the state government of Louisiana. After his time as a judge, Bullard worked as a private attorney in New Orleans. In 1847 he was hired as a law professor at the Law School of Louisiana .

In 1850 he returned to politics again. That year he was first elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives. Following the resignation of MP Charles Magill Conrad , Bullard was elected as the Whigs' candidate in the by-election for the second Louisiana MP to succeed him in the US House of Representatives. There he took up his new mandate on December 5, 1850. By March 3, 1851, he ended the current legislative period of his predecessor. Henry Bullard died a few weeks later, on April 17, 1851, in New Orleans. In addition to his aforementioned activities, he was also the first president of the Louisiana Historical Society .

Web links

• Henry Adams Bullard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Adams Bullard in the database of Find a Grave (English)