Edward Anthony Bradford (September 17, 1813 – November 22, 1872) was a lawyer and unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
Biography
Born in
Plainfield, Connecticut
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, Bradford graduated from
Yale University
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(1833) and
Harvard Law School
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Each class ...
Millard Fillmore
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John McKinley
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. The Senate declined to act on the nomination before the session ended and Bradford was not re-nominated.
Bradford became ill with an unspecified disease in 1869 and left his law practice to seek treatment in Europe. After stays in England and Germany, he died in
Paris
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, France, on November 22, 1872. He was buried at Plainfield Cemetery in Plainfield, Connecticut.