Augustus Bradford
Augustus Williamson Bradford ( born January 9, 1806 Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, † March 1, 1881 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician and 1862-1866 Governor of Maryland.
Early years
Bradford attended the Bel Air Academy and then to 1824, the St. Mary's College in Baltimore. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1826 as a lawyer. Then he began to work in Bel Air and Baltimore in his new profession.
Political rise
As a member of the Whig Party Augustus Bradford in 1844, one of the electors of Henry Clay in the presidential elections of the year. Between 1845-1851 he was employed by the District Court in Baltimore County. In early 1861 he was a member of a conference in Washington wanted to prevent last-minute unsuccessful the outbreak of the Civil War. After the end of the Whig Party to Bradford first joined the short-lived Union Party and later the Democratic Party. On November 6, 1861, he was elected governor of his state.
Governor of Maryland
Augustus Bradford began his four -year term on January 8, 1862. At this time already raged the American Civil War, from the Maryland was hit particularly hard as a border state between the North and the South. The state had indeed decided to stay in the Union; yet there were many supporters of the South. The governor, a trailer of the Union, passed a law requiring any assistance of the South was placed under punishment. He also presented the Union army troops available. Bradford also one of the participants in the conference was the loyal Governors, which took place in Pennsylvania in September 1862.
Another Journey
After the expiration of his term of office on January 10, 1866, Bradford manager of the Port of Baltimore ( Surveyor for the port of Baltimore ). This post he held 1866-1869. In 1872 he was again elector in the presidential elections. He would have voted for Horace Greeley, supported by the Democratic candidate of the Liberal Democrats; this, however, died before the Electoral College made his choice, so that the votes went to the Maryland instead established Thomas A. Hendricks.
After he retired from politics. Augustus Bradford died in 1881., With his wife Elizabeth Kell he had twelve children.