17 Facts About Bradley Barlow

Bradley Barlow was a nineteenth-century banker and politician who served as a US Representative from Vermont for one term from 1879 to 1881.

Bradley Barlow began his banking career in St Albans as a cashier.

Originally a Democrat, and later a Republican, Bradley Barlow was a delegate to the Vermont State constitutional conventions in 1843,1850, and 1857, and was acting assistant secretary in 1843.

Bradley Barlow was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1845,1850 to 1852,1864, and 1865.

Bradley Barlow engaged in banking and in the railroad business from 1860 to 1883.

Bradley Barlow was chairman of the school committee in St Albans and president of the village corporation and treasurer of Franklin County from 1860 to 1867.

Bradley Barlow served in the Vermont Senate from 1866 to 1868.

Bradley Barlow then ran as a "National Republican" with Democratic and Greenbacker support and won the general election, serving in the Forty-sixth United States Congress, March 4,1879 to March 3,1881.

Bradley Barlow was not a candidate for renomination in 1880, and began to suffer business setbacks, largely engineered by Republicans including former Governor J Gregory Smith, who were part of Vermont's business and banking community and resented Barlow's insurgency against the dominant Republican hierarchy.

Bradley Barlow was implicated in the star routes mail scandal of 1876 in which he was identified as one of the most successful mail contractors in the country.

Bradley Barlow was called to testify before Congress several times regarding the scandal.

Bradley Barlow was President of the Vermont National Bank in St Albans when it failed in 1883 as a result of an unsuccessful attempt to sell his South Eastern Railway of Canada and an economic downturn.

Bradley Barlow declared bankruptcy, assigned all of his personal property to the bank and reported that he was penniless.

Bradley Barlow was accused of refusing to pay Vermont state taxes that year.

Bradley Barlow's house, known as Villa Barlow, was taken over by the Congregation of Notre Dame based in Montreal, which had established a convent and school in St Albans in 1869.

Bradley Barlow later lived in Denver, Colorado with one of his daughters.

Bradley Barlow died in Denver on November 6,1889, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in St Albans, Vermont.