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Bulloch, James R

jurist, was born in Rhode Island. He was appointed a judge of the United States court for that district.

BULLOCH, WILLIAM BELLINGER, lawyer, banker, United States senator, was born in 1776, in Savannah, Ga. In 1809 he was elected mayor of Savannah.

Subsequently he became collector of the port, and during the war of 1812 served in the Savannah heavy artillery. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States senate. From 1816 to 1843 he was president of the state bank of Georgia, having been one of the founders of that institution. He died March 6, 1852, in Savannah, Ga.

BULLOCK, ALEXANDER HAMIL- TON, lawyer, state senator, governor, author, was born March 2, 1816, in Royalston, Mass. He was a member of the legislature in 1845, 1847, 1848, 1861, and 1862; state senator in 1849; and commissioner of insolvency in 1853. He was judge of insolvency from 1856 to 1858; mayor of Worcester in 1859; and governor of Massachusetts from 1866 to 1869. He was the author of Intellectual Leaderships, and several addresses and speeches. He died Jan. 17, 1882, in Worcester, Mass.

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