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Mr. Tullock has been unemployed less than one year from April 21, 1834, to the present time. Generally the duties of one office have lapped over those of another, or the changes have usually been without loss of time. His services have been sought, and most of the offices he has held have been voluntarily bestowed, without application on his part Close attention to business, and a personal supervision of every trust have chir.icterized his administrations. He is regarded as a thorough accountant, — accurate, systematic, and vigilant ; and possessing remarkable endurance, untiring industry, great energy and force of character, he never fails of success. His business training, sterling integrity, and courteous demeanor, united svith a capacity for compreliending official duties, and an aptitude for their proper discharge, have enabled him to fill most creditably every position he has occupied. In the rendering of his accounts he has been uniformly prompt, and although receiving and disbursing very large sums of money, there has never been a difference in the settlement, or a voucher disallowed.

Many situations have been tendered to Mr. Tullock and declined, among them that of auditor Northern Pacific Railroad ; auditor and also treasurer Central Vermont Railroad ; auditor Vermont Central and Canada & Vermont Railroads ; treasurer Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad ; cashier of national, and treasurer of savings banks ; president and also general agent of life insurance companies ; superintendent of a steam cotton mill. He has declined positions in the United States Treasury, and been mentioned in the public prints for places to which he has never aspired. His consent could not be obtained to have his name presented for several important nominations, such as mayor of his native city, commissioner for the District of Columbia, and others of more or less important character.

He was one of the Directors and also Auditor of the Portsmouth Gas Light Company for several years, while a resident of that city, and is now a Director of the Second National Bank of Washington, and the Metropolitan Railroad of the District of Columbia, and also of the Graceland Cemetery Association ; President of one Building Association, treasurer of another. He was one of the Trustees of the Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company, May, 1872, and subsequently vice-president and trustee, and one of the advis- ory council of the Washington Beneficial Endowment Association. At one time a Trustee with Gov. William Claiiin of Massachusetts, of twenty thousand acres of land in the State of Iowa, he closed the trust in August, 1866, to the satisfaction of all concerned, by sales, and a division of the property re- maining unsold.

From 1858 to 1865, Mr. Tullock, with George W. Pendexter, Esq., owned and operated the Steam Planing Mill at Portsmouth, N. H., and from 1857 to 1866, with others from New England, a large Steam Saw Mill at Dubuque, Iowa. As executor of estates ; guardian for several children ; appraiser of property, real and personal ; auditor and arbitrator, he has rendered faithful services. He was a delegate to the Building Association Convention, Washing- ton city, in 1873, ^^^ ^^^s served as a member of important committees of public interest and general improvement, as well as for humane and charitable purposes.

Politically both as a Whig and Republican, Mr. Tullock has been prominent- ly identified with Electoral, Congressional, State, Councillor, Senatorial, and County conventions, and an influential member of State, County and other poHtical organizations in New Hampshire and Washington. He was an effi- cient working member of the Whig and Republican New Hampshire State Committees from 1850 to 1865, when he removed to Washington. He con- ducted the political campaign in that State in 1855, ^^^^ signal ability and

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