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Bradford, Gamaliel

soldier, jurist, was born Sept. 2, 1731, in Duxbury, Mass. He was a descendant of Governor William Bradford and son of Judge Gamaliel Bradford. He served in the French war as captain and rose to the rank of major. During the revolutionary war he commanded the fourteenth Massachusetts regiment of continentals. After the war he was a member of the legislature and a judge. He died Jan. 9, 1807, in Duxbury, Mass.

GAMALIEL, political BRADFORD, writer, was born Jan. 15, 1831, in Boston, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1849. He is the principal advocate for the admission of cabinet officers to a seat and voice in congress, without the right of voting.

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