James Bradford Foley (October 18, 1807 – December 5, 1886) was an American politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1857 to 1859.

Biography

Born near

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, Foley received a limited schooling. He was employed on a flatboat on the Mississippi River in 1823. He moved to

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, in 1834. He engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1834 to 1837, and afterwards in farming. He served as Treasurer of Decatur County from 1841 to 1843. He later served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1850. He was appointed commander of the Fourth Brigade of State militia in 1852.

Congress

Foley was elected as a

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to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859).

Later career and death

He resumed agricultural pursuits in Decatur County. He died in

, December 5, 1886. He was interred in South Park Cemetery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foley, James Bradford 1807 births 1886 deaths People from Mason County, Kentucky Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana People from Greensburg, Indiana 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives