Bradley
WILLIAM O'CONNELL, thirty-second Governor of Kentucky (1895-1899); born near Lancaster, Ky., March 18, 1847. During the Civil War he twice enlisted in the Federal army, but was twice discharged on account of his youth. Finally settling down to the study of the law, he was admitted to practice at the age of eighteen by a special act of the Legislature. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Garrard county in 1870. In the Republican National convention of 1884 he opposed the contemplated curtailment of Southern representation in national conventions. He was elected the first Republican Governor of his State in 1895, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1909. He died in 1914.
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Bradshaw
JOHN, an English Puritan, who was President of the High Court of Justice which tried and condemned King Charles I., born in Cheshire, in 1586. In 1649, he was Chief Justice of Chester, and when the trial of the King was determined upon, Bradshaw was chosen to preside. His deportment on the trial was lofty and unbending, and everything was done to give weight and dignity to this unexampled tribunal. On Cromwell's accession to the protectorate, he was deprived of his judgeship, but, on the restoration of the Long Parliament, was elected President of the Council of State. Bradshaw died in 1659, and on his death bed asserted that, if the King were to be tried and condemned again, he would be the first to agree to it. Bradshaw was magnificently buried in Westminster Abbey, whence, after the Restoration, his body was ejected as being that of a regicide, and hanged on a gibbet at Tyburn, with those of Cromwell and Ireton.
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Bradstreet
ANNE, the earliest American poet, born in Northampton, England, in 1612. She was a daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1630 she emigrated to America with her husband, Simon Bradstreet, Governor of Massachusetts. Her poems were published as "The Tenth Muse, Lately ." They are Sprung Up in America quaint and literal in style. She She died Sept. 16, 1672.
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Bradwardine
THOMAS, "DOCTOR PROFUNDUS," Archbishop of Canterbury, born in Chichester, in 1290. He was distinguished for his varied learning, and for his tre treatise, "De Causa Dei contra Pelagium," an extensive work against the Pelagian heresy, for centuries a standard authority. He was chaplain and confessor to Edward III. Being appointed archbishop he hastened to England, but died of the black death on reaching London, Aug. 26, 1349.
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Brady
JAMES HENRY, a United States Senator from Idaho, born in Indiana co., Pa., in 1862. He received his education at the Leavenworth, Kan., School. In 1894, he re- State Normal moved to Idaho where he later became President of the Idaho Consolidated Power Company and was associated with other large State enterprises. He became a prominent figure in politics and was made Governor of Idaho for the term 1909-1911. He was chosen BRAGANÇA United States Senator in 1913. He died in 1918.
NICHOLAS, with NAHUM TATE, versifier of the Psalms, born in Bandon, Ireland, in 1659. He was educated at Westminster, Christ Church (Oxford), and Dublin, and kept a school at Richmond. Tate and Brady's metrical version of the Psalms was authorized in 1696, but with the strong opposition of many among the Tory clergy. His tragedy, "The Rape, or the Innocent Impostors," his blank verse and sermons have sunk into oblivion. He died in Richmond, England, May 20, 1726.
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Bradypus
a mammalian genus, the typical one of the family bradypodidæ. sloth (B. It contains the ai, or common tridactylus), and other species. Various species of the famextinct genera and s ily are found in South America. They with the modare gigantic as compared The most notable sloths. are ern megatherium, mylodon, scelidotherium, and in the Post-Pliocene of North America, megalonyx.
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Braemar
a Highland district_in the S. W. corner of Aberdeenshire. It contains part of the Grampian range with the heights of Ben Macdhui, Cairntoul, Lochnagar, etc. The district has some fine scenery, valleys and hillsides covered with birch and fir.
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Braga
a city of Portugal, capital of the province of Minho, situated on an eminence between the rivers Cavado and D'Este, 34 miles N. E. of Oporto by rail. It is the residence of the Primate of Portugal, who has a palace here. It has also a fine Gothie cathedral (12th century), partly modernized, the Church of Santa Cruz (1642), and manufactures of linen, hats, cutlery, The Bracara firearms, jewelry, etc. Augusta of the Romans, it retains ruins of a temple, an amphitheater, and an aqueduct. Near it is the celebrated Sanctuario do bom Jesus do Monte, which is still a place of pilgrimage. In the 6th century, Braga was the chief city of the Suevi, and it fell successively into the hands of the Goths and Moors, from the latter of whom it was by Alphonso of Castile. Braga produces hats, arms, textiles. and gold and silver articles. Pop. about 25,000. BRAGANÇA, the name of two considerable towns in Brazil. (1) Bragança, a seaport, 100 miles N. E. of Para, at the mouth of the Caite, which is here navigable to the town. Pop. of town about 6,000. (2) Bragança, an inland city of about 10,000 inhabitants, with 50 miles to the N. E. of São Paulo.
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Braganza
or BRAGANÇA, the name of the last reigning dynasty of Portugal. In 1801 Nap Napoleon I. declared that the line of the Braganza sovereigns had ceased. John, Regent of the kingdom, withdrew to Brazil in 1807, but he returned in 1821. At his death, in 1826, his son, Dom P Pedro, resigned the throne in favor of his daughter, Maria da Gloria, preferring to remain Emperor by of Brazil, which he had been elected the Brazilians, October 12, 1822.
or BRAGANÇA, a town of Portugal, capital of the former province of Tras-os-montes, with a c castle, the ancient seat of the Dukes of Braganza, from whom the present reigning of Po Portugal are descended. Pop. about 3,500.
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Bragg
BRAXTON, an American military officer, born in Warren co., N. C., March 22, 1817; graduated at West Point, in 1837; was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 3d Artillery; served with distinction under General Taylor in the Mexican War; and retired to private life in 1856. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a Brigadier - General in the Confederate girl army, and was stationed at Pensacola Frederic to act against Fort Pickens. He took an important part in the two days ' battle of Shiloh. On the death of site Gen. A. S. Johnston he was appointed to his command, with the full rank of and General, and succeeded General Beauregard as commander of the Department, with in July of the same year. command he resigned in December, 1863. His chief success was at Chickamauga, in September, 1863, when he inflicted a defeat on the army of General Rosecrans, but was himself in turn defeated by General Grant, which led to his temporary removal from command in 1864, and he was appointed military' adviser to Jefferson and at W Davis. In 1864, he assumed command of the department of North Carolina. After the war he was chief engineer of the State of Alabama. He died in Gal. veston, Tex., Sept. 27, 1876.
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