James Ware Bradbury (June 10, 1802January 6, 1901) was a United States Senator from Maine. Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, he attended the common schools and

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. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, he became principal of

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and founder of the first

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, at

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, in 1829. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta, Maine, in 1830. There he was for a time editor of the ''Maine Patriot'', and was prosecuting attorney for the county from 1834 until 1838. He was a member of the Baltimore convention of 1844, which nominated

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for the presidency. He was elected in 1846 as a

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to the

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and served from March 4, 1847, until March 3, 1853, when he declined to be a candidate for reelection (returning, at the close of his term, to the practice of his profession). While in the Senate he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Printing and the

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. He was chairman of a select committee on French spoliations. He served as a trustee of Bowdoin College in 1861 and was corresponding secretary of the Maine Historical Society and then president of that body from 1867 to 1887.

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Bio of James S. Bradbury: As found in ''Representative Men of Maine''
1802 births 1901 deaths Maine Democrats Maine lawyers Bowdoin College alumni 19th-century American newspaper editors Democratic Party United States senators from Maine People from Parsonsfield, Maine People from Augusta, Maine 19th-century American politicians {{Maine-politician-stub

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