Broadhead, James O
lawyer, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Va. He was a member of the state house of representatives of Missouri in 1847; state senator from 1850 to 1854; a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1861; and United States district attorney for the eastern district of Missouri in that year.
He was provost-marshal-general of the department of the Missouri in 1863; member of the state constitutional convention in 1875; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.