[1] While residing in Beresford, Bulow spent twenty-five years as city attorney from 1902 to 1927, except while serving as mayor from 1912 to 1913.

[4] Bulow lost the general election in a landslide to Republican Lieutenant Governor Carl Gunderson as a Farmer–Labor Party candidate siphoned off a significant share of the left-leaning vote.

As governor, he pardoned the famous frontier gambler Poker Alice after her conviction of bootlegging and other charges related to running a house of prostitution.

During his entire life, Bulow kept a legal residence in Beresford, South Dakota and voted by absentee ballot.

[5] Beresford honored William J. Bulow in 1959 during the town's seventy-five year jubilee observance.