Philip Burr Bradley

BRADLEY

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/11/2008 at 23:38:52

Iowa: Its History and Its Foremost Citizens, Johnson Brigham, 1918.

Philip B. Bradley-

The Thurlow Weed of Governor Briggs’ political campaign and gubernatorial career was Philip B. Bradley, a Connecticut Yankee, a graduate of Union College, and a Jackson County lawyer and legislator. A member of the last Territorial Council, he was elected to the first State Senate. His friends credited him with managing Briggs’ campaign and acting as the governor’s unofficial adviser. On retiring from the senatorship he became secretary of that body. He was chairman of the Iowa delegation in the national convention that nominated Franklin Pierce in 1852. In 1858 and again in 1877, he served a term in the House. He died in Andrew in 1890. In politics his ambition was apparently to be “the power behind the throne.”