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ARDEN L. BULLOCK
Vol. 3, p. 1005-1006

While his administration in the office of county attorney of
Pontotoc County has fully demonstrated his exceptional eligibility
for the position and attested to his distinctive talent as a trial
lawyer, the preferment came to him virtually through somewhat
extraordinary political exigencies. This county is a recognized
democratic stronghold and in the election of 1912, owing to an
irreconcilable split in the local ranks of the republican party, Mr.
BULLOCK transferred his allegiance from the same to the democratic
party, as the candidate of which he was elected to his present office
in 1914. His was a complete personal readjustment along political
lines, for he became a stalwart supporter of President WILSON in the
national campaign of that year, has been since that time an ardent
and effective exponent of the principles and policies of the
democratic party and as such is a leader among its younger
representatives in Oklahoma.

The Southwest looked inviting to Mr. Bullock after he had completed
his college career in the State of New York, where he was born and
reared, and he accordingly came to Oklahoma in 1903 and established
his residence in the Village of Roff, Pontotoc County. His profession
did not at that time offer many inducements at Roff, owing to its
having attracted a larger quota of lawyers than the community could
well support, and though a true disciple of Blackstone and Kent, Mr.
Bullock consulted expediency and for a time gave his attention to the
pedagogic profession, as a successful and popular teacher in the
village schools of Roff during the initial period of his residence in
Oklahoma. In the following year he taught a term of school in Grady
County, but it is in the work of the legal profession that he has
found his greater opportunities for success, as shown by his standing
as one of the representative members of the bar of Pontotoc County.
He has been given divers manifestations of popular confidence and
good will, and not the least of these came to him when he was elected
mayor of Roff, and that prior to his attaining to his legal majority.

At Cherry Creek, a village in beautiful Chautauqua County, New York,
Arden L. Bullock was born on the 16th of March, 1875, and he is the
elder of the two sons of Richard C. and Emma (BROWN) Bullock, his
brother, Arley, being now the incumbent of a responsible position in
a manufacturing establishment at Falconer, New York. The father of
Mr. Bullock still resides at Cherry Creek. The mother died in 1900.
Richard C. Bullock served eight years as postmaster of that place. He
has been a resident of the Empire State from the time of his nativity
and represented the same as a valiant soldier of the Union in the
Civil war.

To the public schools of his native state Arden L. Bullock is
indebted for his preliminary educational discipline, and after
completing a course in the New York State Normal School at Fredonia,
in his native county, he devoted several years to teaching in the
schools of the Empire State. In preparation for the profession of his
choice he entered the law department of the University of Buffalo, in
which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900, his
reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws being coincident with his
admission to the bar of his native state in 1900. He initiated the
active practice of his profession in his home Village of Cherry
Creek, where he remained until 1903, when he set forth for Oklahoma,
having been prompted to this action by the favorable reports he had
received from a friend who had located at Roff. He established his
home in the same village, as previously noted, and there he continued
in the practice of his profession prior to his election to his
present office, when he removed to Ada, the judicial center of the
county.

Mr. Bullock is an influential and popular member of the Pontotoc
County Bar Association and the Ada Commercial Club, is affiliated
with the Delta Chi legal fraternity, holds membership in the lodge of
Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Roff and the Ada Lodge of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, besides which he is
affiliated with Roff Lodge No. 69, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons,
of which he served six years as master, and of Roff Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest. He is past grand of the
Odd Fellows Lodge at Roff.

At Cherry Creek, New York, the year 1900 gave record of the marriage
of Mr. Bullock to Miss Josephine TERRY, who has been a successful
teacher in her native state and who has continued her pedagogic
labors to a greater or less extent during their residence in
Oklahoma, where she has made a specialty of primary work. She is an
active member of the Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs and in the
same has done much toward furthering its high ideals and efficient
work in connection with practical educational affairs. Mr. and Mrs.
Bullock have five daughters, whose names and respective ages, in
1915, are here entered: Doris E., thirteen years; Josephine, nine
years; Nedra, six years; Ruth, three years and Marjorie, two years.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy Marie Tenaza, Dec. 13, 1998.