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"26th Massachusetts Gov" Alexander Bullock Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale the "26th Massachusetts Gov" Alexander Bullock Clipped Signature. 

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Alexander Hamilton Bullock (March 2, 1816 –

January 17, 1882) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman

from Massachusetts. First

a Whig and then a Republican, he

served three terms (1866–69) as the 26th Governor of

Massachusetts. He was actively opposed to the expansion of slavery

before the American Civil War,

playing a major role in the New England Emigrant Aid

Society, founded in 1855 to settle the Kansas Territory with abolitionists. He was for many

years involved in the insurance industry in Worcester, where he also

served one term as mayor. Bullock was educated as a lawyer, and married into

the wealthy Hazard family of arms manufacturers, becoming one the state's

wealthiest men. He served in the state legislature during the war, and was

active in recruiting for the war effort. He was an advocate of temperance,

and of the expansion of railroads in the state. Alexander Hamilton Bullock was

born on March 2, 1816, in Royalston, Massachusetts,

the son of Sarah (Davis) and Rufus Bullock. His father was a merchant and

farmer who also owned a small mill and was active in local politics. He

attended the local schools before going to Leicester Academy. Bullock graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and from Harvard

Law School in 1840. He was then admitted to the Massachusetts

Bar and joined the law practice of Emory Washburn in Worcester. However, he drifted away

from the law, becoming involved in the insurance business as an agent. He

eventually joined the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, which had John Davis as

its first president. In 1842 Bullock became

active in political and public service. He served as a military assistant to

John Davis, who was Governor of Massachusetts that

year, after which he was frequently referred to as "Colonel Bullock".[3] In that year he also became editor of the National

Aegis, a Whig newspaper with which he would remain associated for many

years.

In

1844 Bullock married Elvira Hazard, daughter of Augustus George Hazard of Enfield, Connecticut; they

had three children,[6] including explorer Fanny Bullock Workman.[7] Elvira's father was owner of a major munitions

factory, and upon his death in 1868 the Bullocks inherited a significant

fortune, becoming one of the wealthiest families in the state. Bullock was first

elected to the Massachusetts

House of Representatives as a Whig in 1844, serving until 1848;

for two years he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In 1849 he served in

the Massachusetts Senate. In

1854, Bullock became a principal in the New England Emigrant Aid

Company, established by Eli Thayer to send anti-slavery settlers to the Kansas

Territory after the Kansas-Nebraska Act specified

that slavery in the territory was to be determined by popular sovereignty. Bullock received the

Republican Party nomination for governor in 1865 after John A. Andrew decided

not to stand for reelection. Bullock defeated Civil War General Darius Couch in the general election, and served three

consecutive one-year terms. Bullock was a member of an informal group of

Republicans known as the "Bird Club" (for its organizer, paper

magnate Francis W. Bird), which effectively controlled the state Republican

Party organization and dominated the state's elected offices into the 1870s. During

his tenure he improved the state's finances, reducing war-related debts. Bullock

was an outspoken advocate of women's suffrage, although the more conservative

legislature never enacted enabling legislation. He also favored state support

for railroads, signing bills providing loans totalling $6 million to

the Troy and Greenfield

Railroad for the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel in each of his terms. He was also

responsible for hiring Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. to

oversee the work on that troubled project.

One

of the more contentious issues during Bullock's tenure was the state's alcohol

prohibition law, which had been enacted in the 1850s, and which politically

divided the otherwise dominant Republicans. Easing of either the law's strict

rules or their enforcement was regularly debated in the legislature. Bullock,

in contrast to the laissez-faire approach of Andrew before

him, enforced the prohibition law more strictly than any other governor of the

period. This policy was probably responsible for the declining margins of

victory in his three elections.[26] In 1868, legislative proponents of relaxed

rules secured passage of a law abolishing the state police, who were tasked

with the law's enforcement. Bullock vetoed this bill, pointing out that the

state police performed other vital functions. At the same time, a law replacing

abolition with a licensing scheme was passed; Bullock allowed this bill to

become law without his signature. In 1869, a more conservative legislature

restored the previous prohibition statute. Bullock declined to run

for reelection in 1868, promoting Henry L. Dawes as his successor. Opposing Dawes for the

Republican nomination was George F. Loring, a protégé of Benjamin Franklin Butler.

Bullock's mentor Francis Bird worked behind the scenes to secure the nomination

instead for William Claflin, who went

on to win the election. 

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