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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaBRODERICK, David Colbreth
(1820—1859)
Senate Years of Service:
1857-1859
Party:
Democrat
BRODERICK, David Colbreth, (cousin of Andrew Kennedy and Case Broderick), a Senator from California; born in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1820, his father having emigrated from Ireland to work as a stonecutter on the Capitol; moved with his parents to New York City in 1823; attended the common schools; apprenticed to a stonecutter in early youth; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; moved to California in 1849 and engaged in smelting and assaying gold; member, State senate 1850-1851, serving as president in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1857, until mortally wounded in a duel with the chief justice of the supreme court of California; died near San Francisco, Calif., September 16, 1859; interment under a monument erected by the people of the State in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco.
Bibliography
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. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1994; Williams, David. David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait
. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1969.
Fredman, L. E. “Broderick: A Reassessment.” Pacific Historical Review
30 (February 196l): 39-46.
Hall, Carroll Douglas. The Terry-Broderick Duel
. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939.
Hargis, Donald E. “The Issues in the Broderick-Gwin Debates of 1859.” California Historical Society Quarterly
32 (December 1953): 313-25.
Lynch, Jeremiah. The Life of David C. Broderick, a Senator of the Fifties
. New York: Baker Taylor Co., 1911.
O’Meara, James. Broderick and Gwin
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Quinn, Arthur. The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California
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. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1969.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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