William Czar Bradley

William Czar Bradley

William Czar Bradley (born March 23, 1782 in Westminster , Republic of Vermont , † March 3, 1867 ibid) was an American politician . From 1813 to 1815 and from 1825 to 1827 he represented the first and between 1823 and 1825 the second constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Bradley attended primary school in Cheshire ( Connecticut ) and Charlestown ( New Hampshire ). For a short time he also studied at Yale University . But he did not finish his studies because he was expelled from the university. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1802, Bradley began practicing his new profession in Westminster. Between 1804 and 1811 he was a District Attorney in Windham County .

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives between 1806 and 1807 and again later in 1819 . In 1812 he was a member of the Advisory Board to the Governor of Vermont. In the 1812 congressional elections, held nationwide, Bradley was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took over from Samuel Shaw on March 4, 1813 . By March 3, 1815 Bradley could serve a term in Congress .

Between 1815 and 1820 Bradley was a member of a commission that determined the border between the US state of Maine and Canada in accordance with the Ghent Peace Treaty , which ended the British-American War of 1812 . In the 1820s, Bradley became a supporter of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay , whose faction he joined within his party. As a candidate for this grouping, he was re-elected to Congress in the 1822 congressional election for the second district of Vermont. There he took over the seat previously occupied by Phineas White . After being re-elected in 1824, he was able to spend two legislative terms in the House of Representatives between March 4, 1823 and March 3, 1827. In his last legislative period from 1825 to 1827 he represented as the successor to Rollin Carolas Mallary again the first electoral district, while Mallary took Bradley's seat in the second district.

Bradley returned to practice as a lawyer after his last term in Congress ended. After the final dissolution of his old party, he joined the Democratic Party founded by Andrew Jackson . As their candidate, he ran unsuccessfully in 1830, 1834 and 1838 for the office of governor of Vermont. In the following years he became an opponent of slavery and a member of the short-lived Free Soil Party . In 1850 Bradley was re-elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. After the founding of the Republican Party in 1854, he became a member. In 1856 he was one of the Republican electors in the presidential election, who voted for their, albeit unsuccessful, candidate John C. Frémont . In 1857 Bradley was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Vermont Constitution. A year later he retired from politics and his legal work. He died in March 1867 in his native Westminster. William Bradley was married to Sara Richards. The couple had a daughter named Merab Ann, born in 1806.

Web links

• William Czar Bradley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Czar Bradley in the database of Find a Grave (English)