Broderick, Case
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1839, in Grant county, Ind. He enlisted at Fort Scott, Kas., as a private soldier in the second Kansas battery, in 1862, and was mustered out at Leavenworth in August, 1865. He was elected probate judge of Jackson county in 1868, and was twice re-elected; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Holton in 1870; and was elected county attorney of Jackson county in 1876 and re-elected in 1878. He was elected state senator in 1880 to represent Jackson and Pottawatomie counties and in 1884 was appointed by President Arthur associate justice of the supreme court of Idaho for the term of four years.
He removed at once to Boise City, Idaho, assumed the duties of the position, and served until the fall of 1888, when he returned to Holton and resumed the practice of law. He is largely interested in farming and stock raising and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
BRODERICK, DAVID COLBRETH, United States senator, was born Dec. 4, 1820, in Washington, D. C. He removed to California in 1849, and engaged in the business of smelting and assaying gold.
He was a member of the convention which drafted the constitution of that state; served two years in the California senate, and was president of that body in 1851. He was elected a senator in congress from California in 1856, for the long term, taking his seat during the second session of the thirty-fourth congress. He died Sept. 16, 1859, near Lake Merced, Cal.