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success, the result being the election of Hon. Ralph Metcalf as Governor, and a complete political revolution in the State. He was associated for several years on the executive committee, as treasurer, with those most thorough and superior organizers, Hon. E. H. Rollins, chairman, Hon. William E. Chandler and Gov. B. F. Prescott, Secretaries, for each of whom, Mr. Tullock ex- presses a loving remembrance and the strongest friendship. Since his resi- dence in Washington he has been connected with the New Hampshire Repub- lican Association of that city, as a member of its executive committee and its treasurer.

Mr. Tullock was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representa- tives, June sessions, 1855, 1856, was Secretary of the Legisladve Caucus, and Chairman of the Committee on Finance, and v/as the author of the economical policy of apportioning the State tax at the regular session, instead of having an extra one for that purpose. He was appointed chairman of a committee which completed the work in an unexceptionable manner without prolonging the session, being the first time in the existence of the State that the apportionment of taxes was perfected at a regular session. This innova- tion, with its consequent saving of many thousands of dollars, is entirely due to Mr. Tullock, who offered the resolution against the advice of older mem- bers who in caucus did not favor the movement, fearing a failure and a long session.

The " Manchester American " commendng on the subject said : —

" The committee on the apportionmeut of taxes have performed their duties in the most creditable manner. By their industry and determination to push the labor through, the fall session has been obviated antl thus forty thousand dollars saved to the State. Perliaps the most efficient man upon this exceedino^ly well selected committee was Thomas L. Tullock, a member from Portsmouth, who has no superior as a useful member of the Legislature."

The policy thus inaugurated has since been followed. Mr. Tullock being Secretary of State when the next apportionment year occurred, completed the preuminary calculations, so far as practicable, before the legislature con- vened, and thus reUeved the committee of much labor and enabled it to re- port a bill within a reasonable time.

He has been a member of the Common Council, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen at Portsmouth, and one of the Superintendents of Election, at Washington ; was a member of the New Hampshire Kansas Aid Association in 1856, and a delegate from New Hampshire, to the Southern Loyalist Conven- tion at Philadelphia, in September, 1866, and also to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, in 1868, accredited to the seventh District of Virginia, and was one of the committee who notified Gen. Grant at his house on I street, Washington, May 28, 1868, of his nomination as the RepubUcan candi- date for the presidency, and also Schuyler Colfax as vice-president.

By appointment of the governor and council of New Hampshire, he was commissioner of the SuUivan railroad, 1855-6; Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad, i860; also commissioner New Hampshire State Prison, 1859-60 ; Justice of the Peace and Quorum throughout the State, besides holding other appointments.

For many years of his active life, Mr. Tullock has shown the warmest interest in the cause of educadon, especially as a member of the Portsmouth Young Men's Society for Mutual Improvement, 1838, of which he was secre- tary several years, and as an active member and officer of school committees, director of Portsmouth Lyceum ; president of the Board of Trustees New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College at Tilton ; vice-presi-

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