- Elected as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in 1974
- Elected as Texas Lieutenant Governor in 1990
- Graduate of Baylor University Law School
- Once known by his own description as the "bad boy of Texas politics".
- When Bullock died, then-Texas Governor George W. Bush said, "There are no words big enough to capture Bob Bullock. 'Unique' seems an understatement. Even 'legend' or 'giant' are not quite big enough. Bob Bullock was the largest Texan of our time, as great and grand as the state he loved."
- In 1979, he issued the following press release on the eve of his surgery for hemorrhoids: "The keen scatological interest of most reporters originally prompted me to schedule the operation in the Capitol press room. My doctors, however, advised me to seek more sanitary conditions."
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