BRADFORD, Allen Alexander (1815-1888)

BRADFORD, ALLEN ALEXANDER, a Delegate from the Territory of Colorado; born in Friendship, Maine, July 23, 1815; moved to Missouri in 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; clerk of the circuit court of Atchison County, Mo., 1845-1851; moved to Iowa and was judge of the sixth judicial district 1852-1855; moved to the Territory of Nebraska; served as a member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1856, 1857, and 1858; moved to the Territory of Colorado in 1860; appointed judge of the supreme court of the Territory by President Lincoln on June 6, 1862; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); resumed the practice of law; elected to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); engaged in the practice of law in Pueblo, Colo., until his death there March 12, 1888; interment in the City Cemetery.

The Morgan Library
Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
New York, NY
Papers: In the Jerome Bunty Chaffee Papers, 1871, 1 item (2 pages).
A letter from Jerome Chaffee to President Ulysses Grant on January 25, 1871, recommending Colonel E.T. Wells as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado. Other authors include Allen Alexander Bradford.


University of Colorado at Boulder
Archives, Political Collections
Boulder, CO
Papers: In the Colorado Territorial Delegates collection, 1864-1867, 4 items.
Includes an autobiographical letter from Allen Alexander Bradford. A finding aid is available in the repository.


University of Colorado at Boulder
Archives, Western Americana Military History Collections
Boulder, CO
Papers: In the Frank T. Hall Papers, 1868-1875, 50 items.
Includes a document concerning the raising of troops to put down an Arapahoe uprising in August 1868. A finding aid is available in the repository.