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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyBRADLEY, William O’Connell
(1847—1914)
Senate Years of Service:
1909-1914
Party:
Republican
BRADLEY, William O’Connell, a Senator from Kentucky; born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., March 18, 1847; educated by private tutors and at a private school in Somerset, Ky.; during the Civil War entered the Union Army at the age of fifteen, but because of his youth served only a short time; studied law and was licensed to practice in 1865; prosecuting attorney of Garrard County 1870; appointed Minister to Korea in 1889 but declined; member of the Republican National Committee 1890-1896; Republican Governor of Kentucky 1895-1899; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 23, 1914; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee to Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Land (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-third Congress); interment in State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for William Bradley
. 64th Cong., 1st sess., 1915-1916. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917; Thatcher, Maurice Hudson, ed. Stories and Speeches of William O. Bradley
; with a Biographical Sketch by M.H. Thatcher
. Lexington, KY: Transylvania Printing Co., 1916.
Bradley, William O’Connell. Public Documents
. Louisville: George G. Fetter Printing Co., 1899.
Thatcher, Maurice Hudson, ed. Stories and Speeches Of William O. Bradley; with a Biographical Sketch by M[aurice] H[udson] Thatcher
. Lexington, KY: Transylvania Printing Co., 1916.
U.S. Congress. Senate. William O’Connell Bradley (Late a Senator from Kentucky), Memorial Addresses Delivered in the Senate of the United States
. 64th Cong., 2d sess., 1916-1917. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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