Bulloch, Archibald
lawyer, public official, was born about 1730, in Charleston, S. C. In 1775 he was elected a member of the provincial congress, and became its president, and during the following year he was again called upon to preside over the second provincial congress, and sent as a delegate to the continental congress meeting at Philadelphia. He was chosen first republican president of Georgia, holding that office from 1776 till 1777, when the state constitution came into existence. Governor Bulloch was one of the most eminent men of his time, and had great influence in shaping the course of his state. He died Feb. 22, 1777, in Savannah, Ga.