Theophilus Bradbury
Theophilus Bradbury | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 11th district | |
In office March 4, 1795 – July 24, 1797 | |
Preceded by | None |
Succeeded by | Bailey Bartlett |
Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | |
In office 1797 – July 1803 | |
Preceded by | Increase Sumner |
Succeeded by | Seat ended |
Member of the Massachusetts Senate | |
In office 1791-1794 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Newbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America | November 13, 1739
Died | September 6, 1803 Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 63)
Political party | Federalist |
Alma mater | Harvard College |
Theophilus Bradbury (November 13, 1739 – September 6, 1803) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1757; taught school and studied law in Portland; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Portland in 1761; moved to Newburyport in 1764 and continued the practice of law; member of the State senate 1791-1794; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1795, until July 24, 1797, when he resigned; appointed justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1797. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1798.[1] Bradbury was a member of the electoral college in 1800.
In February 1802 Bradbury was stricken with paralysis and totally disabled, he was removed from the bench in July 1803.[2]
Bradbury died in Newburyport, Mass., September 6, 1803; interment in Old Hill Burying Ground in Newburyport.
References[edit]
- United States Congress. "Theophilus Bradbury (id: B000735)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ^ Davis, William Thomas Davis (1900), History of the judiciary of Massachusetts: including the Plymouth and Massachusetts Colonies, The Province of Massachusetts Bay and the Commonwealth, Boston, MA: The Boston Book Company, p. 276
- 1739 births
- 1803 deaths
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard College alumni
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
- Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Massachusetts state senators
- Massachusetts Federalists
- Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- People of colonial Massachusetts
- People from Newbury, Massachusetts
- Burials at Old Hill Burying Ground