Santa Barbara County Biographies

THOMAS McNULTA

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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THOMAS McNULTA, the present City Attorney of Santa Barbara, was born at New 
Rochelle, New York, October 8, 1845. He enlisted November 21 1861, and served 
during the war of 1861-'65 in the Fifty-third New York, Company D, Epineuil Zouaves, 
and the Sixty-second New York, Anderson Zouaves, and as Lieutenant and finally as 
Captain of a Tennessee militia company, formed from employes of the Quartermaster's 
Department at Nashville in the fall of 1864; and with the exception of a few months 
when he was disabled, was continuously in the service until the close of the war in 
May, 1865. He is now a member of Farragut Post, G. A. R., at Vallejo, California. 
After the war he became Deputy Circuit Clerk of McLean County, Illinois, and served 
in that capacity about eighteen months, devoting his spare hours to the study of the 
law, and literary and general educational subjects, and then entered the office of Weldon 
& McNulta, at Bloomington, Illinois, and regularly pursued his legal studies with that 
firm for two years, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Illinois. 

Shortly after his admission to the bar he formed a partnership with his brother, General 
John McNulta, and was associated with him as counsel for the Indianapolis, Bloomington 
& Western Railway Company, and also the Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Railway Company. 

Mr. McNulta was married in Bloomington, Illinois, in May, 1873, to Miss Georgia Robinson, 
a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and removed to Santa Barbara in that year, where he has since 
resided. 

He was elected District Attorney in 1877; has held the office of City Attorney by appointment 
for four terms, and is now holding that position and engaged in the practice of his profession. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.