Robert Johns Bulkley (October 8, 1880 – July 21, 1965) was an American attorney and politician from Ohio.

[2] Bulkley knew Franklin D. Roosevelt from their college days when they worked together on the Harvard Crimson.

He voted against key New Deal laws such the National Industrial Recovery Act, Tennessee Valley Authority, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Works Progress Administration, soil conservation, and against the wages and hours legislation.

The decisive factor for Roosevelt was that Bulkey had voted YEA on the two critical 1937 bills for court-packing and for executive reorganization.

[3] The Bulkley Building located in Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio is named after him.