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- Alabama Statistical Register
Tenth District
Elmore and Tallapoosa Counties
Thomas Lafayette Bulger, of Dadeville, Tallapoosa county, State senator from the 10th district, was born August 16, 1855, in that place, and is the son of Michael Jefferson and Mary Elizabeth (Bozman) Bulger, grandson of M.J. Bulger, Sr., and of Nathan and Harriet Bozman. Michael J. Bulger was born Dec. 20, 1799, in Edgefield, S.C.; was a brigadier-general in the Confederate States Army; died at Dadeville, Sept. 4, 1901, aged 100 years, 8 months and 15 days. The father of General Bulger was a soldier in the army of the Revolution. Senator Bulger? early education was received in the common country schools; later he attended the Roanoke College in Virginia four years; and went thence to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Since 1877, Mr. Bulger was been a practicing lawyer at Dadeville; was a member of the State Senate in the session beginning November 9, 1886, also a member of the House of Representatives in sessions beginning November 9, 1898, and November 13, 1900; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901; and representative from Tallapoosa county, 1907. He is a Democrat, and was a member of the State executive committee ten years; was a Bryan presidential elector; and is a member of the Methodist Church. On December 16, 1880, he was married at Wetumpka, to Mollie Cade, a daughter of Col. John G. and and Sarah (Hutcheson) Bass.
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