Luther Bradish was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1839 to 1842, while his Whig Party colleague, William H Seward was governor.
13 Facts About Luther Bradish
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Luther Bradish was born in 1783 in Cummington, Massachusetts, the son of Col.
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Luther Bradish read the law and passed the bar, becoming an attorney and entering practice.
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Luther Bradish served in the US Army during the War of 1812.
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In 1819, Luther Bradish was commissioned by United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, under US President James Monroe, to pursue a treaty with the Ottoman Empire on commerce and shipping in the Mediterranean.
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In 1838 Luther Bradish ran as a Whig candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1838, when abolitionism was growing as a political force.
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Luther Bradish was elected as Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1838, serving two terms from 1839 to 1842 under Governor Seward.
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When Seward declined to run for re-election in 1842, Bradish ran for Governor, but was defeated by Democrat William C Bouck.
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From 1850 until his death in 1863, Luther Bradish was the President of the New-York Historical Society, based in New York City.
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In 1862, Luther Bradish was elected president of the American Bible Society.
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Luther Bradish was succeeded in February 1864 by ABS vice-president James Lenox.
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Luther Bradish died at the Ocean House Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Luther Bradish's body was returned to New York, where he was buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.