Broderick, David C. (David Colbreth), 1820-1859

LC control no.	nr 90000569
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Broderick, David C. (David Colbreth), 1820-1859 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Broderick, D. C. (David Colbreth), 1820-1859 Broderick, David Colbreth, 1820-1859
Birth date	1820-02-04
Death date	1859-09-16
Place of birth	Washington (D.C.)
Place of death	San Francisco (Calif.)
Affiliation	California. Legislature. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Stone-cutters
Found in	His Speech of Hon. D.C. Broderick, of California, against the admission of Kansas, 1858. NUC pre-1956 (Broderick, David Colbreth, 1820-1859) MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Broderick, David C. (David Colbreth), 1820-1859; usage: David C. Broderick; D.C. Broderick) LC in RLIN, 12/7/89 (hdg.: Broderick, David Colbreth, 1820-1859; usage: David C. Broderick) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, February 26, 2018: (Brodericlk, David Colbreth, Senate years of service: 1857-1859 (cousin of Andrew Kennedy and Case Broderick), a Senator from California; born in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1820, his father having emigrated from Ireland to work as a stonecutter on the Capitol; moved with his parents to New York City in 1823; attended the common schools; apprenticed to a stonecutter in early youth; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; moved to California in 1849 and engaged in smelting and assaying gold; member, State senate 1850-1851, serving as president in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1857, until mortally wounded in a duel with the chief justice of the supreme court of California; died near San Francisco, Calif., September 16, 1859; interment under a monument erected by the people of the State in Lone Mountain (later Laurel Hill) Cemetery, San Francisco; reinterred in 1942 in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.)
Associated language	eng