Samuel Carey Bradshaw (June 10, 1809 – June 9, 1872) was an Opposition Party member of the

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from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. Samuel Carey Bradshaw was born in Plumstead, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, graduated from the

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in 1833 and practiced in

Quakertown, Pennsylvania Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. The borough is south of Allentown and Bethlehem and north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Va ...

. Bradshaw was elected as an

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candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. He died in Quakertown in 1872. Interment in Friends Burial Ground.

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