Bradley Barlow

Bradley Barlow

Bradley Barlow (born May 12, 1814 in Fairfield , Vermont , †  November 6, 1889 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the third constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bradley Barlow attended public schools in his home country. He then worked in Philadelphia as a shop clerk until 1858 before returning to Fairfield, where he ran the family farm. In 1857 he moved to St. Albans , where he became a treasurer at Vermont National Bank . In this bank he later made it up to the president.

Barlow was initially a member of the Democratic Party . In 1843, 1850 and 1857 he was a delegate to meetings to revise the Vermont Constitution. In 1845 and from 1850 to 1852 Barlow was a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont . Between 1860 and 1883 he invested in stagecoach lines in the western United States. He also got into the railroad business and became president of two railroad companies. In his home parish of St. Albans he became a member of the school board.

When the Civil War broke out , Bradley Barlow joined the Republicans . Between 1860 and 1867 he was a chamberlain in Franklin County . From 1864 to 1865 he was again in the House of Representatives from Vermont, from 1866 to 1868 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the US House of Representatives. He then ran as a candidate for the short-lived Greenback Party and was elected to Congress with the help of the Democrats . There he replaced George Whitman Hendee on March 4, 1879 . Since he refused to run again in 1880, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1881.

In 1883 he ran into financial and economic difficulties, which he gradually overcame. He moved to Denver shortly before his death. Bradley Barlow was married to Caroline Farnsworth, born in 1819, with whom he had six children.

Web links

• Bradley Barlow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Bradley Barlow in the database of Find a Grave (English)