James Dennis BRADY, Congress, VA (1843-1900)

BRADY James Dennis , a Representative from Virginia; born in Portsmouth, North Hampton County, Va., April 3, 1843; merchant; lawyer, private practice; New York Volunteers, until 1865; clerk of the corporation court of Portsmouth, Va., 1865-1877; collector of internal revenue for the second district of Virginia, 1877-1885, 1889-1900; delegate to the Republican National Conventions, 1880, 1888, and 1896; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in 1886; member of the Republican National Committee, 1888-1892; died on November 30, 1900, in Petersburg, Va.; interment in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Petersburg Va.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present