Edward BRADLEY, Congress, MI (1808-1847)

BRADLEY, Edward, a Representative from Michigan; born in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, N.Y., in April 1808; attended the common schools and the local academy in Canandaigua; associate judge of the common pleas court of Ontario County, N.Y., in 1836; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich.; prosecuting attorney of Calhoun County in 1842; member of the State senate in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress and served from March 4, 1847, until his death on August 5, 1847, in New York City while en route to Washington, D.C., before the assembling of Congress; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present