Background
Luther Bradish was born on September 15, 1783 in Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachussets, son of Colonel John and Hannah (Warner) Bradish. He was descended from Robert Bradish, who settled in Cambridge, Massachussets, in 1635.
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Luther Bradish was born on September 15, 1783 in Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachussets, son of Colonel John and Hannah (Warner) Bradish. He was descended from Robert Bradish, who settled in Cambridge, Massachussets, in 1635.
Graduating from Williams College in 1804, Luther went to New York and combined teaching with the study of law until his admission to the bar. Soon after this the collection of a large claim necessitated a trip to South America, the West Indies, and the British Isles.
Luther Bradish returned to the United States in time to serve as a volunteer in the War of 1812. In 1820 John Quincy Adams, then secretary of state, requested him to sound the disposition of the Turkish Government regarding a treaty with the United States which would open the Black Sea to American trade. Provided with no authority beyond a special passport, he crossed the Atlantic on the Columbus, flagship of Commodore Bainbridge, and made the circuit of the western Mediterranean with the United States squadron.
Supposedly engaged on a secret mission, he was dismayed by rumors current in every port that he was authorized to negotiate a treaty with the Porte. A dispatch vessel took him from Gibraltar to Smyrna, whence he went by land to Constantinople. There he was well received in diplomatic circles and held conversations with high Turkish officials. The latter, however, were unwilling to commit themselves on the prospect of an American negotiation, and temporized until the first mutterings of the Greek Revolution destroyed all hope of a definite answer.
Convinced that that indecision of the Porte was due to a desire to curry favor with European powers hostile to the entry of a new rival into the Levant trade, Bradish advised that any attempt on the part of the United States to negotiate a treaty should be made without the customary intervention of a nation already represented at Constantinople. This procedure was successfully followed by Charles Rhind in 1830. After spending several months in Constantinople, Bradish visited Egypt and became personally acquainted with Mehemet Ali, the Pasha.
Crossing the desert to Palestine, he traveled through Syria, returned to Constantinople by sea, and continued to Vienna on horseback. Until 1826 he remained in Europe, extending his travels to Scandinavia and Russia, while he spent considerable time in the great capitals and studied assiduously their languages, manners, and antiquities. On his return to America he resided in Franklin County, New York, where he owned extensive properties.
After playing a prominent part in Philhellene activities, he was elected to the state Assembly as a Whig. This position he held from 1827 to 1830, and again from 1835 to 1838. Chosen speaker of the Assembly in 1838, he was in the same year elected lieutenant-governor. During the two terms that he held this office he established a remarkable reputation as a parliamentarian while presiding over the Senate, and as member of the court for correction of errors came off victorious in a dispute with the supreme court of the state.
In 1842 he was the unsuccessful Whig nominee for governor, but was immediately appointed assistant United States treasurer for New York by his intimate friend, President Fillmore. After two years he retired from politics and devoted himself to educational and philanthropic interests in New York City, where he made his home after 1842.
In 1849 he succeeded Albert Gallatin as president of the New York Historical Society and held the office until his death. His broad culture, urbane disposition, and eminent public services gained universal respect.
He died suddenly at Newport, Rhode Island.
Luther Bradish he was elected first vice-president of the New York Historical Society in 1844 , and on the death of Mr. Gallatin in 1849, was elected president. He was chosen vice-president of the American Bible Society in 1847, and succeeded to the presidency of that institution on the death of Mr. Frelinghuysen in 1861.
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Initially Bradish was elected to the state Assembly as a Whig, but in actuality he took no active part in political life. Later he switched his membership to a Republican party.
Bradish was a member of the American Bible Society and of the New York Historical Society.
In 1814 Bradish married Helen Elizabeth, daughter of George Gibbs of Newport, Rhode Island, but two years later both she and their only child died. By a second marriage in 1839 to Mary Eliza Hart of New York he had one daughter.
