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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MichiganBRADLEY, Frederick Van Ness
(1898—1947)
BRADLEY, Frederick Van Ness, a Representative from Michigan; born in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1898; moved to Rogers City, Mich., in 1910; attended the public schools, Rogers City (Mich.) High School, and Montclair (N.J.) Academy; served in the Student Army Training Corps at Plattsburg, N.Y., in 1918; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1921; salesman with the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1921-1923, and purchasing agent 1928-1938; also purchasing agent, Bradley Transportation Co., Rogers City, Mich., 1924-1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death May 24, 1947, at New London, Conn., while there as a member of the Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard Academy; chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Eightieth Congress); interment in Rogers City Memorial Park, Rogers City, Mich.
United States. 80th Cong., 2d sess., 1948. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Frederick Van Ness, Bradley, late a Representative from Michigan
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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