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Thomas Brockway Bullene (10 August 1828-4 December 1894) was the Republican Mayor of Kansas City from 1882 to 1883, succeeding Daniel A. Frink and preceding James Gibson.

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Thomas Brockway Bullene was born in Oswego County, New York in 1828, and he was raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He opened a country store in Lyons, Wisconsin in 1849 and moved to Independence, Iowa in 1856; to Lawrence, Kansas in 1863; and to Kansas City, Missouri, where he became a store owner and volunteer firefighter. Bullene served on the city council from 1880 to 1881 and as Mayor from 1882 to 1883, and he died in 1894.