Bullard was born in
Pepperell, Massachusetts, graduated from
Harvard, and
studied law in
Boston and
Philadelphia. In Louisiana, he resided in
Natchitoches, where he
practiced law, and in
Alexandria, as well as in
New Orleans. He accompanied General
José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois on his military expedition into
Spanish Texas in 1813.
Congress He was later elected as an
anti-Jacksonian to the
22nd and
23rd Congresses, resigned in 1834, and later served as a
Whig in the
31st Congress.
Career Henry A. Bullard was also a justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court (1834–39) and
Secretary of State of Louisiana (1838–39). He was also a professor of civil law at the
University of Louisiana Law School (1847) and served in the
Louisiana House of Representatives (1850).
Death and burial He died in New Orleans and was interred at the
Girod Street Cemetery. That burying ground was destroyed in 1959 and unclaimed remains were commingled with 15,000 others and deposited beneath Hope Mausoleum, St. John's Cemetery, New Orleans. ==References==