Bradley Barlow

Bradley Barlow ( born May 12, 1814 in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont; † November 6, 1889 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bradley Barlow attended the public schools of his home. After that, he was employed until 1858 in Philadelphia as a store clerk, before he returned to Fairfield, where he managed the family-owned farm. In 1857 he moved to St. Albans, where he was cashier at the Vermont National Bank. In this bank, he brought it up later as president.

Barlow was first a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1843, 1850 and 1857 he was a delegate at meetings to revise the constitution of Vermont. 1845 and from 1850 to 1852 was deputy in Barlow House of Representatives from Vermont. Between 1860 and 1883 he invested in stagecoach lines in the western United States. He also went into the railway business and became president of two railway companies. In his home town of St. Albans, he was a member of the school board.

At the outbreak of the Civil War Bradley Barlow joined the Republicans. Between 1860 and 1867 he was treasurer in Franklin County. From 1864 to 1865 he was again in the House of Representatives from Vermont, from 1866 to 1868 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1878 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives. Then he ran as candidate of the short-lived Greenback Party and was elected with the help of the Democrats in Congress. There he broke on March 4, 1879 from George Whitman Hendee. Since he resigned in 1880 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1881.

In 1883 he was in financial and economic difficulties, but which he gradually overcame. Shortly before his death he moved to Denver. Bradley Barlow was married to the 1819 -born Caroline Farnsworth, with whom he had six children.