![]() He was one of seven Liberty Party candidates elected to the Commons House of Assembly in the pivotal election of 1768. Bulloch resumed his political career in his new state and quickly became a leader of the Liberty Party, guiding it during the resistance to the oppressive measures of the British colonial government. In October 1764, after Bulloch moved to Savannah, he married Mary De Veaux, daughter of Judge James De Veaux, a prominent Savannah landowner. In 1758 the Bulloch family relocated to Georgia. He was commissioned lieutenant in a South Carolina regiment in 1757. Archibald Bulloch was the great-great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.īulloch was educated in Charleston and began his political career in South Carolina while he practiced law. ![]() His mother, Jean, was the daughter of a Puritan minister, the Reverend Archibald Stobo. ![]() His father, James Bulloch, had immigrated to South Carolina in the 1720s from Scotland. ![]() Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.īulloch was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1730. ![]()
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