Jefferson Davis Brodhead

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Jefferson David Brodhead (January 12, 1859–April 23, 1920), also known as J. Davis Brodhead and Joseph Davis Brodhead, was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

J. Davis Brodhead (son of Richard Brodhead) was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He was elected as district attorney of Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1889. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892 and 1904.

Brodhead was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908. He resumed the practice of law in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was appointed judge of the courts of record of Northampton County in 1914. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1920. Interment in Easton Cemetery in Easton.

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• J. Davis Brodhead at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Gustav A. Schneebeli

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1907 - 1909

Succeeded by A. Mitchell Palmer