Joseph P. Bradley

Joseph Philo Bradley ( born March 14, 1813 in Berne, New York, † January 22, 1892 in Washington, DC) was an American jurist who was among other things, almost 22 years a judge at the U.S. Supreme Court ( U.S. Supreme Court ).

Life

After the visit of the Dutch Reformed Church of Berne Bradley studied at Rutgers University. Subsequently, he was principal of the Millstone Academy and studied next by his friend Frederick T. Frelinghuysen inspired law. After 1839, he received the approval of lawyers in the state of New Jersey, he began working as a lawyer.

As a new judgeship in the United States Supreme Court was created by the Judiciary Act of 1869, Bradley, who was originally supporters of the Whig Party and later the Republican Party, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant on March 23, 1870 Associate Justice called on the United States Supreme Court. The Office of the Associate Justice he held until his death from tuberculosis on 22 January 1892. Bradley was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in New Jersey. After his death, George Shiras Jr. succeeded him as Deputy Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court

Work

In 1877 he was among the members of a fifteen -member Electoral Commission, which was composed of equal parts of five members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the Supreme Court, and had to decide the dispute in the U.S. presidential election of 1876. The Election Commission decided on March 2, finally, that Rutherford B. Hayes, the three southern states ( and thus the overall election against Samuel J. Tilden ) had won ( it voted the respective party members for their respective candidates). On March 5, 1876 Hayes was sworn in as the new president.

During his affiliation with the U.S. Supreme Court, he was, among other things, in March 1880 the decision to process Strauder v. West Virginia, according to the general exclusion of blacks from juries is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Publications

• Family Notes Respecting the Bradley Family of Fairfield, and Our Descent From There: With Notices, 1894
• Miscellaneous writings of the late Hon Joseph P. Bradley posthumously in 1902