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.
