Jefferson Davis Brodhead (January 12, 1859 – April 23, 1920), also known as J. Davis Brodhead and Joseph Davis Brodhead, was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the

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from

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for one term from 1907 to 1909.

Life and career

J. Davis Brodhead (son of

Richard Brodhead Richard Brodhead (January 5, 1811September 16, 1863) was an American lawyer and politician from Easton, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House (1843 to 1849) and Senate (1851 to 1857). He was the father of U.S. Repres ...

) was born in Easton,

. He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in

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. He was elected as district attorney of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1889. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in

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and

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. Brodhead was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of law in

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. He was appointed judge of the courts of record of Northampton County in 1914. He died in

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, in 1920. Interment in Easton Cemetery in Easton.

Sources

The Political Graveyard
1859 births 1920 deaths Pennsylvania lawyers Pennsylvania state court judges Politicians from Easton, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Jefferson Davis family {{Pennsylvania-state-judge-stub