John Bullion

Professor and Interim Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin
area: American colonial history
office: 115 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-6064
email: bullionj@missouri.edu

B.A. Stanford University, 1966;
Harvard Law School (no degree);
M.A, and Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1968 and 1977

Professor John L. Bullion teaches American colonial history. His research specialities are eighteenth-century British politics and British imperial policy during the era of the American Revolution. His peers in Britain regard him as one of the leading historians of women in eighteenth-century politics, on the basis of his articles on Augusta, Princess Dowager of Wales and mother of King George III. These articles include "George, be a King!: The Relationship between Princess Augusta and George III," in Stephen Taylor, Richard Connors, and Clyve Jones, (eds), Hanoverian Britain and Empire (London,1998); "To play what game she pleased without observation: Princess Augusta and the Political Drama of Succession, 1736-1759, " in Clarissa Cambell Orr, (ed.), Queenship in Britain, 1660-1837 (Manchester, 2001); and his 6500 word essay on Augusta in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, forthcoming 2004).

Bullion has also written a well-received memoir titled In the Boat with LBJ, published by the Republic of Texas Press, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield, in 2001. It details some of the strategies his father developed while serving as one of Lyndon Johnson's tax attorneys and describes the time Bullion spent hunting deer on the LBJ ranch in December 1965. He has done numerous public readings from and lectures on the book, and was a featured author in the Barnes & Noble Workshops on Texas Writers in May 2002.

Bullion wrote with Nancy Taube a bi-weekly column on mainline churches in modern America for the Columbia Daily Tribune. They are presently working on a compilation of these columns, tentatively titled Sunday Morning: Christianity & Popular Culture in Modern America.

Bullion's most recent book is Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics (New York, 2007). It is part of the distinguished Pearson/Longman series Library of American Biography, under the general editorship of Mark C. Carnes. The book has been chosen as the centerpiece reading assignment for all freshmen at Texas State University-San Marcos (LBJ's alma mater) in 2008.

Bullion is currently working on an essay for a collection on the life of Frederick, Prince of Wales (the father of King George III of Great Britain and the husband of Princess Augusta). He has begun research on a book surveying the history of the United States during the 1940s for a new Pearson/Longman series Decades, under the general editorship of Terry Anderson.

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John Bullion
Professor Bullion

In the Boat with LBJ

Lyndon B. Johnson and
the Transformation of American Politics

Dr. Bullion's Columbia Daily Tribune columns:
Sunday Morning