Luther Bradish

Luther Bradish

Luther Bradish (* 15. September 1783 in Cummington , Massachusetts , †  the 30th August 1863 in Newport , Rhode Iceland ) was an American lawyer and politician , who from 1839 to 1842 as Deputy Governor of the State of New York officiated.

Career

Luther Bradish was the son of Colonel John Bradish and Hannah Bradish, née Warner. He served in the US Army during the British-American War . During this time he married Helen Elizabeth Gibbs in 1814.

During the tenure of US President James Monroe in 1819, he was authorized by Foreign Secretary John Quincy Adams to negotiate a treaty with the Ottoman Empire . Up to this point, David Offley of Philadelphia acted as a mediator. He was commissioned by the American shipowners to deal with the imperial regents of the barbarian states , i.e. H. to negotiate with Algiers , Tripoli , Tunis etc. However, his options were limited because the United States had no official relations with the Ottoman Empire, even after the end of the Barbarian Wars . The terms of the treaty that Ottoman Foreign Minister Halet Efendi insisted on were unacceptable to the United States. Any further attempts to negotiate with Halet became meaningless when he angered the Sultan and was first banished from Constantinople and then killed. A treaty was ultimately only signed during President Andrew Jackson's tenure .

Bradish served twice, from 1827 to 1830 and then again from 1835 to 1838, of the New York State Assembly , where he represented Franklin County . During his last term in office he held the post of Speaker . Then he was elected as Whig Lieutenant Governor of New York. He held this post under Governor Seward from 1839 to 1842. When Seward then declined to run for another term, Bradish ran for governor, but was defeated by William C. Bouck .

From 1850 until his death he was the president of the New-York Historical Society . In 1855 Williams College awarded him an LL.D. (English Doctor in Laws ). During President Fillmore's reign, he was Deputy Treasurer of the United States , based in New York.

In 1862 he was elected President of the American Bible Society (ABS), a position he held until his death. He was succeeded in February 1864 by the former Vice President of ABS, James Lenox . Bradish died at the Ocean House Hotel in Newport and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn .

literature

• Michael B. Oren: Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present . Norton, New York 2007, ISBN 0-393-05826-3 (p. 107)

Web links

• Luther Bradish at The Political Graveyard
• American Bible Society