William Bradford (434)
Election date: 1785William Bradford (14 September 1755–23 August 1795) was a military officer, attorney, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1785. Born in Philadelphia, to the printer and Benjamin-Franklin-rival William Bradford, the junior Bradford studied at the Academy of Philadelphia (1762-1765), before studying at Princeton college. He graduated with his A.B. in 1772, and then with his A.M. in 1775. Thereafter, he studied law under prominent lawyer Edward Shippen before volunteering as a private upon the onset of the Revolutionary War. Bradford served at Valley Forge, White Plains, Fredericksburough, and Raritan, attaining the rank of Colonel in the process. Despite resigning in 1779 due to poor health, the following year Bradford became Pennsylvania’s Attorney General and Register of the High Court of Appeals. He held those offices until 1791, when he became a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In 1784, President George Washington appointed him Attorney General of the United States. Unfortunately, he died the following year.
One edition.
Sixteen known editions by Bradford, running from 1760 (for 1761) through 1786 (for 1787): one in 1760 (Philadelphia), one in 1761 (Philadelphia), one in 1762 (Philadelphia), one in 1763 (Philadelphia), one in 1764 (Philadelphia), one in 1765 (Philadelphia), one in 1766 (Philadelphia), one in 1767 (Philadelphia), one in 1768 (Philadelphia), one in 1769 (Philadelphia), one in 1770 (Philadelphia), one in 1771 (Philadelphia), one in 1772 (Philadelphia), one in 1773 (Philadelphia), one in 1774 (Philadelphia), one in 1775 (Philadelphia), one in 1776 (Philadelphia), one in 1777 (Philadelphia), one in 1779 (Philadelphia), one in 1780 (Philadelphia), one in 1781 (Philadelphia), one in 1782 (Philadelphia), one in 1783 (Philadelphia), one in 1784 (Philadelphia), one in 1785 (Philadelphia), one in 1786 (Philadelphia).