Case Broderick

Case Broderick (* September 23 1839 in Marion, Grant County, Indiana, † April 1, 1920 in Holton, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1899 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Case Broderick attended the public schools in his homeland. In 1858 he moved to the Jackson County in what was then Kansas Territory, where he worked in agriculture. During the Civil War he was from 1862 to 1865 soldier of the Union in a unit of Kansas. After the war he studied law, and after his were made in 1870 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Holton.

Broderick was a member of the Republican Party. From 1874 to 1875 he served as mayor of Holton. After that, he was 1876-1880 District Attorney in Jackson County. Between 1880 and 1884 Broderick sat in the Senate of Kansas. In 1884, he was appointed in Boise by U.S. President Chester A. Arthur to the associate judge at the Idaho Territory Supreme Court. Served in this office Broderick to 1888, then he returned to Holton, where he practiced as a lawyer again.

1890 Broderick was in the first district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edmund Morrill on March 4, 1891. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 four legislative sessions. In 1898, he was not nominated by his party for another term. After the end of his time in Congress Broderick initially worked as a lawyer again. Later he retired from this profession and was a farmer and rancher. He died on April 1, 1920 in Holton, where he was also buried.

Case Broderick was the cousin of David C. Broderick (1820-1859), who represented from 1857 to 1859 the state of California in the U.S. Senate. Another cousin was Andrew Kennedy (1810-1857), who belonged to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana 1841-1847.