| LC control no. | no2017149679 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bradley, William O'Connell, 1847-1914 |
| See also | Kentucky. Governor (1895-1899 : Bradley) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Somerset (Ky.) Garrard County (Ky.) Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1847-03-18 |
| Death date | 1914-05-23 |
| Place of birth | Lancaster (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Republican National Committee (U.S.) United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Attorneys Public prosecutors Governors |
| Found in | William O'Connell Bradley, 1917: title page (William O'Connell Bradley) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, November 14, 2017 (Bradley, William O'Connell, a Senator from Kentucky; born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., March 18, 1847; educated by private tutors and at a private school in Somerset, Ky.; during the Civil War entered the Union Army at the age of fifteen, but because of his youth served only a short time; studied law and was licensed to practice in 1865; prosecuting attorney of Garrard County 1870; appointed Minister to Korea in 1889 but declined; member of the Republican National Committee 1890-1896; Republican Governor of Kentucky 1895-1899; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 23, 1914; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee to Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Land (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-third Congress); interment in State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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