James W. Bradbury

James W. Bradbury

James Ware Bradbury (born June 10, 1802 in Parsonsfield , York County , Maine , †  January 6, 1901 in Augusta , Maine) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Maine in the US Senate .

James Bradbury attended public schools and later a private school in Gorham . After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, he was made head of a private school in Hallowell , before he in 1829 Effingham ( New Hampshire ), the first Normal School of New England established. He then studied law and began practicing as a lawyer in Augusta in 1830. There he worked intermittently as an editor for the Maine Patriot and was from 1834 to 1838 prosecutor for Kennebec County .

In 1844, James Bradbury attended the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , at which James K. Polk was nominated as a candidate for the presidency . Polk later also won the election . On March 3, 1847, Bradbury moved to the Washington Senate for the Democrats . He spent a complete term of office there until March 3, 1853 and renounced another candidacy in order to be able to pursue his legal activities again. During his tenure in the Senate, he chaired the Committee on Printing and the Committee on Retrenchment .

After his political career Bradbury was still a member of the board of trustees of Bowdoin College in 1861. He joined the board of directors of the Maine Historic Society and served as its president from 1867 to 1887. James Bradbury died in 1901 at the age of 98 as the oldest former US Senator at the time.

Web links

• James W. Bradbury in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James W. Bradbury in the database of Find a Grave (English)