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association. In 1874 he became judKe-advocate of 1st brigade, M. V. M. on the statf of Gen. I. S. Burrell, lidding the jxisition for two years. After 1868 he took an active part as a si>eaker in most of the Republican cam- pjiigns in Massachu- setts. From 1873 to 187G he was a mem-

/i \^ ^^ *^^ ^'"^ Boston '■ common council, and was its jjresident in the latter year. In i J 187G he was elected to, the Massachusetts

house of representa- tives, was returned the succeeding four yeans, and in 1883 he was again elected, and Avas returned in

1884 and 1885. He was speaker of the house in

1885 and 1886. In 1886, '87 and '88 he was elected' lieutenant-governor of the state, and as acting governor represented the commonwealth at the centennial of the settlement of Ohio in Septem- ber, 1888, and, owing to the protracted iUness of Governor Ames, served as acting governor during much of 1889, taking part as such in the dedica- tion of the monument of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, and at the reception to President Har- ri-son by the commonwealth of Massachusetts. In January, 1890, he was inaugurated governor of Massachusetts. After his retirement from the executive chair, he devoted himself to a con- stantly increasing practice of the law. He was married June 20, 1S78, to Angie M., daughter of Aljel G. Peck of Arlington, Mass.

BRACKETT, Joshua, physician, was born at Greenl:in<l, N. H., May 5, 1733. He was gradu- ated from Harvard college in 1752, and after- wards studied theology, but after preaching a short time studied medicine, and was very suc- cessful in his practice. In 1783 he was chosen an honorary member of the Massachusetts medical society, and aided in founding the medical society of New Hampshire, of which he was afterwards president, and to which he presented 143 valuable books on me<licine. At the beginning of the revolutionary war lie was apfiointed judge of the maritime court of New Hampsliire and held the office until the adoption of the federal consti- tution. He left fifteen hundred dollars to Har- vard college to establish a chair of botany and natiinil history. Anacc(junt of him may be found in " Thacher's Medical Biography," and " Adams Annals of Portsmouth." He died at Portsmouth, N. H., Julvl7, 1802.

BRACKETT, Walter M., artist, was born at Unity, Me., in 1823, brother of Edward Augustus Brackett, sculptor. He began his professional work in Boston in 1843, where he a\ as at first a portrait painter. He afterwards devoted his time wholly to the painting of game fish. An art critic in a leading journal said of him: "Walter M. Brackett is acknowledged by all to .stand without an Amer- ican peer at the head of his special department of painting. One artist only, Rolfe of England, is ever named as his rival as a i)ainter of fish." He joined the Boston art cluli at its organization, serving as president for several years. A series of his paintings which portray the process of catching a salmon: "The Rise," "The Leap," "The Last Struggle," and " Landed," exhibited at the Crystal Palace of London, were purchased by Sir Richard Potter.

BRADBURY, James Ware, senator, was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, June 10, 1802, son of Dr. James and Ann (Moulton), grandson of Cotton and Ruth (Ware), great-grandson of Judge John and Abigail (Young), • great ^ grandson of Wy- mond and Maria (Cotton), great^ grandson or W y m o n d and Sarah (Pike), and great* grandson of Thomas Brad- bury who was bap- tized in Essex county, England, Feb. 28, IGIO, emi- grated to New England in 1634 as agent for Gorges, proprietor of the original province of Maine, and was married in May, 1636, to Mary Per- kins. James Ware studied and

taught school by *-^ -^.._^

turns and was graduated at Bowdoin in 1825. He was principal of Hallo well academy and of thefirst normal school in New England, which he estab- lished at Effingham, N.H. He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and practised in Augusta, Maine, at the same time editing a Democratic news- paper. In 1844 he was a delegate to the Demo- cratic national convention at Baltimore where, after several days' balloting, he presented the name of James K. Polk who was unanimously nomi- nated. Mr. Bradbury, as chairman of the Dem- ocratic state committee, took an active part in the campaign, the first in which " Stvunp speak- ing " became general in Maine, and the state was carried on the issue of the annexation of Texas. He was an elector-at-Iarge, and when the electors

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