Joseph P. Bradley

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Joseph P. Bradley

Joseph Philo Bradley (* 14. March 1813 in Berne , New York ; † 22. January 1892 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer , among other things, almost 22 years judges at the Supreme Court of the United States ( US Supreme Court ) was .

Life

After attending the Dutch Reformed Church of Berne, Bradley studied at Rutgers University . He was then headmaster of the Millstone Academy and studied law inspired by his friend Frederick T. Frelinghuysen . After he was admitted to the bar in the state of New Jersey in 1839 , he took up a practice as a lawyer .

When the Judiciary Act of 1869 created a new judge's post in the US Supreme Court, Bradley, who was originally a supporter of the Whig Party and later the Republican Party, was appointed associate judge by US President Ulysses S. Grant on March 23, 1870 Appointed to the US Supreme Court . He held the office of Associate Justice until his death from tuberculosis on January 22, 1892. Bradley was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery , New Jersey. After his death, George Shiras Jr. succeeded him as an associate judge at the US Supreme Court.

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In 1877 he was one of the members of a fifteen-member electoral commission, which consisted of five members each from the US House of Representatives , the US Senate and the Supreme Court, and had to decide on the dispute in the US presidential election in 1876 . The electoral commission finally decided on March 2nd that Rutherford B. Hayes had won the three southern states (and thus the general election against Samuel J. Tilden ) (the respective party members each voted for their candidate). On March 5, 1876, Hayes was sworn in as the new president.

During his membership in the US Supreme Court, among other things, in March 1880 he worked on the decision on the Strauder v. West Virginia , according to which the general exclusion of blacks from jury courts is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Publications

  • A Memoir of Theodore Strong, LL.D .: Prepared at the Request of The National Academy of Science , 1879
  • Family Notes Respecting the Bradley Family of Fairfield, and Our Descent Therefrom: With Notices , 1894
  • Miscellaneous writings of the late Hon. Joseph P. Bradley posthumously 1902

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personal data
SURNAME Bradley, Joseph P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradley, Joseph Philo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Berne , New York
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1892
Place of death Washington, DC