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Rufus Brown Bullock was the son of Volckert Veeder Bullock and his wife Jane Eliza Brown was born on March 28, 1834 in Bethlehem, New York.
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Letter from His Excellency Governor Bullock, of Georgia, in reply to the Honorable John Scott, United States senator, chairman of the Joint select committee to inquire into the condition of the late insurrectionary states This book, "Letter from His Excellency Governor Bullock, of Georgia In reply to the Honorable John Scott, United States senator", by Rufus Brown Bullock, is a replication of a book originally published before 1871. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Rufus Brown Bullock was the son of Volckert Veeder Bullock and his wife Jane Eliza Brown was born on March 28, 1834 in Bethlehem, New York.
After securing a high school education, Rufus became interested in telegraphy, in which art he became an expert.
Bullock developed executive talent and for several years was employed in supervising the building of telegraph lines between New York and the South. The year 1859 found him located at Augusta, Georgia, as the representative of the Adams Express Company. He organized the express business in the South and became an official of the Southern Express Company.
On the outbreak of the Civil War he offered his services as a telegraph expert to the Confederacy and was used in the establishment of telegraph and railroad lines on interior points. At the close of the War he had reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was paroled at Appomattox as acting assistant quartermastergeneral.
He then returned to Augusta, resumed his connection with the express business, organized a bank, and became (1867) president of the Macon & Augusta Railroad.
As governor from 1868 to the fall of 1871 Bullock was charged by the contemporary Democratic newspapers and other partisan opponents with every known form of political rascality, --with almost wrecking the state-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad by placing its control in the hands of incompetent and venal carpet-baggers (it piled up a debt of three-quarters of a million dollars during Bullock's administration instead of yielding a steady net revenue to the state as it had done during the previous administration); with seeking to prolong military control for personal and party ends; with the sale of pardons; with purchasing the influence of the press by wasteful publications of public documents; with allowing the state penitentiary to be plundered; with gross corruption in the payment of subsidies to railroads; with selling state bonds and appropriating the proceeds; with general extravagance and corruption in every department of his administration.
Two years of misrule were enough for the state, and in 1870 the conservatives returned an overwhelming majority to the legislature. The Governor saw that his rule was over; fearing criminal indictment, he resigned, on October 23, and fled from the state.
On the restoration of Democratic control the legislature appointed a committee to investigate his official conduct. The report, covering 166 pages, pronounced Bullock guilty of various charges of corruption and mismanagement. Bullock undertook to defend himself in October 1872, in an Address to the People of Georgia. The historian of the Reconstruction period says of the defense that it "fails to bring conviction that he disproved a single charge of the investigating committee. "
Bullock eluded efforts to capture him until 1876, when he was arrested, brought back to Georgia, tried on an indictment charging embezzlement of public funds, and acquitted for lack of evidence. At a much later period he again published a defense, this time in the Independent, March 19, 1903. It is wholly unconvincing. The truth appears to be that Bullock and his crew "instituted a carnival of public spoliation".
Through the device of issuing state bonds (later repudiated) to subsidize railroad corporations, they poured public money into their own pockets. During the fight over the matter of repudiating these bonds, Henry Clews & Co. of New York, who acted as Bullock's financial agents, published a card in the Atlanta Constitution in which they admitted that the proceeds of the bonds were misapplied and that the state had failed to receive value for them, but urged that they be not repudiated, as this would hurt the credit of the state. After his acquittal by the jury, Bullock remained in Atlanta and rehabilitated himself, at least in the contemporary business world.
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He was a senior warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
Bullock's entrance into politics was as a Republican member of the constitutional convention of 1868. Congress had overthrown the state government set up by President Johnson, had reestablished military control, and had required as the condition of readmission the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, already rejected by the Johnson government. Congress ordered the adoption of a new state constitution, and, by disfranchising the responsible native white element and empowering the negro to vote for members of the convention and to sit in it, assured the election of a convention which would carry into effect the will of Congress. To this convention Bullock, who heartily favored the Congressional plan of reconstruction, was elected.
He at once became the leader of the carpet-bag and negro element of the convention. Under his leadership the constitutional convention was turned into a party nominating convention and he was nominated as the Republican candidate for governor in the election shortly to be held. The reviving Democratic party nominated General John B. Gordon, but was defeated in the November 1868 election.
He was a man of considerable ability, large, handsome, pleasant-mannered and popular.
He was married to Marie Salisbury of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and was a vestryman in St. Philip's Church.