Nathan B. Bradley

Nathan Ball Bradley ( born May 28, 1831 in Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † November 8, 1906 in Bay City, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1835, Nathan Bradley moved with his parents in the Lorain County, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. In 1849 he moved to Wisconsin where he was employed at a sawmill. In 1850 he returned to Ohio, where he ran his own sawmill until 1852. Then he moved to Lexington and later to St. Charles in Michigan. In his new home Bradley was active in wood processing. Between 1858 and 1864 he ran a sawmill in Bay City. There he has been renowned for the salt trade.

Politically, Bradley joined the Republican Party. In Bay City, he was a magistrate and member of the council. In 1865 he was elected mayor of this city. From 1866 to 1868 Bradley sat in the Senate from Michigan. Since 1867 he has also worked in the banking industry; while he was Vice President of the First National Bank of Bay City.

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the then newly created eighth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. After a re-election in 1874 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1877 two legislative sessions. 1876 ​​renounced Bradley on another Congress candidate. In the following years he worked again in the timber industry. He was also involved in the establishment of the first factory for the processing of sugar beets in Michigan. He died on November 8, 1906 in Bay City.

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