Bradley Barlow

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Bradley Barlow (May 12, 1814 - November 6, 1889) was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont. He attended the common schools and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia until 1858, when he moved to St. Albans, Vermont.

Barlow was a delegate to the state constitutional conventions in 1843, 1850, and 1857, acting as assistant secretary in 1843. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1845, 1850-1852, 1864, and 1865. He engaged in banking and in the railroad business 1860-1883. He was chairman of the school committee in St. Albans; president of the village corporation and treasurer of Franklin County 1860-1867. He served in the Vermont Senate 1866-1868. He was elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1881) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1880. He died in Denver, Colorado in 1889 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, Vermont.

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• Bradley Barlow at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress