Background
BRADLEY, Benjamin Franklin was born on October 5, 1825 in Scott County, Kentucky, United States, United States.
BRADLEY, Benjamin Franklin was born on October 5, 1825 in Scott County, Kentucky, United States, United States.
Private school, southern university.
He graduated from Georgetown College of Kentucky in 1843 and received his law degree from Transylvania University in Kentucky in 1849. In 1851, he married Mrs. Emily (Sanders) Stuart, by whom he had four children.
He served with the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1847 during the Mexican War. Bradley, an ally of Kentucky Governor George W. Johnson, farmed and practiced law prior to the Civil War. After the firing on Fort Sumter, he volunteered for service in the Confederate Army.
For a few months in 1861, he served as assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Humphrey Marshall. During 1862, he was commandant of the 1st Battalion of Kentucky Mounted Rifles. After resigning from the army in 1863 because of ill health, Bradley was elected to the second Confederate House, where he served until the end of the war.
He was a member of the Ordnance and Ordnance Stores and Post Office and Post Roads Committees. As a member of the Confederate Congress, he favored vigorous prosecution of the war, but he opposed harsh treatment of prisoners. When the war ended, he returned to his law practice in Georgetown.
From 1868 to 1880, Bradley was clerk of the circuit court for Scott County. As a Democratic member of the Kentucky Senate in 1889, he was chairman of the Railroads Committee.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
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