Born in 1766 in Spotsylvania, Virginia,[1] Bullock studied law.
He moved to Kentucky.
He served as member of the Kentucky Senate from Shelby County from 1812 to 1814.
Bullock was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – October 13, 1821).
He died on October 13, 1821, in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
He was interred in an old burying ground near Shelbyville.