John Green Brady

John Green Brady ( born May 26, 1847 in New York City; † December 17, 1918 in Sitka, Alaska ) was an American politician.

Brady's mother died when he was young. His father remarried, but Brady cherished antipathies against his stepmother. 1855, at the age of 8 he ran away from home, lived on the streets until he found refuge in a children's home. In 1858 he was sent with a train full of orphans to Indiana, where he was a judge living there, John Green adoptees,. The same train also was Andrew Burke, a good friend of John Green Brady and later governor of North Dakota should be.

After Brady was grown up, and had completed his graduation from Yale, he was a Presbyterian minister and 1878 was one of the leading clergy of Alaska. He soon founded a school for the children living there.

After he soon resigned his ministerial post, he briefly worked in the timber industry, and was finally in the time 1897-1906 Governor of the District of Alaska.

Brady, who suffered all his life from diabetes, died after a stroke.

Americans
Governor (Alaska)
Born in 1847
Died in 1918
Man

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