William Czar Bradley

William Czar Bradley ( born March 23, 1782 Westminster, Windham County, Vermont; † March 3, 1867 ) was an American politician. From 1813 to 1815 and from 1825 to 1827, he was the first and 1823-1825 the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Bradley attended primary school in Cheshire (Connecticut) and Charlestown (New Hampshire). For a short time he also studied at Yale University. But he has not finished because he was expelled from the university this study. After studying law and its made ​​in 1802 admitted to the bar Bradley began practicing in his new profession in Westminster. Between 1804 and 1811 he was District Attorney in Windham County.

Politically, he was a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1806 and 1807 and later in 1819 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont. In 1812 he served on the senior staff of the Governor of Vermont. In the congressional elections of 1812, which were held all across the state, Bradley was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1813 the successor of Samuel Shaw. By March 3, 1815 Bradley was able to complete a term in Congress.

Between 1815 and 1820, Bradley was a member of a committee, the border between the U.S. state of Maine and Canada stipulated in accordance with the Treaty of Ghent, which had ended the British -American War of 1812. In the 1820s, Bradley became a follower of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, whose group he joined within his party. As a candidate of this group, he was elected in congressional elections of 1822 for the second district of Vermont again in Congress. There he took over the seat previously occupied by Phineas White. After a re-election in 1824 he was able to spend two terms in the House of Representatives between 4 March 1823 to 3 March 1827. In his last term from 1825 to 1827 he represented as a successor of Carol's Rollin Mallary again the first constituency, while Mallary took seat in the second district Bradleys.

After the end of his final term in Congress Bradley again worked as a lawyer. After the final dissolution of his old party he joined, founded by Andrew Jackson Democratic Party. As the candidate he competed in the 1830, 1834 and 1838 respectively unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Vermont. In the following years he became an opponent of slavery and a member of the short-lived Free Soil Party. In 1850, Bradley was again elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont. After the founding of the Republican party in 1854 he became its member. In 1856 he was one of the Republican electors in the presidential election, who voted for her, but unsuccessful, candidate John Charles Frémont. In 1857, Bradley was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Vermont. A year later he retired from politics and his lawyer in retirement back. He died in March 1867 in his birthplace Westminster. William Bradley was married to Sara Richards. The couple had a daughter, born in 1806 Merab Ann.

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