William A. Bradley

{{short description|American politician}}

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| office = 11th Mayor of the City of Washington, D.C.

| term_start = June 9, 1834

| term_end = June 13, 1836

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| birth_place = Guilford, CT

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William A. Bradley (February 25, 1794 – August 28, 1867) was an American politician who served as the eleventh Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1834 to 1836.

Once the cashier for the Bank of Washington, Bradley was postmaster for the city of Washington in the 1850s until he was removed by President Franklin Pierce in 1853.[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(ej00952)) Senate Executive Journal] -TUESDAY, December 20, 1853]

In 1851, he purchased Analostan Island (now Theodore Roosevelt Island) from the estate of John Carter.{{cite book |title= Proctor's Washington and Environs |first= John Clogett|last= Proctor |year= 1949 |publisher= John Clogett Proctor, LL.D. |page= 98 }} The island had previously been part of the land holdings of Virginia patriot George Mason, and he used the estate as an entertainment resort.{{cite web |url=http://www.gunstonhall.org/landholdings/landholdinglinks.htm |title=Documents pertaining to George Mason's plantations and landholdings |website=www.gunstonhall.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010426104519/http://gunstonhall.org/landholdings/landholdinglinks.htm |archive-date=2001-04-26}} During the American Civil War, it was converted to be used as a training camp, known as Camp Greene. After the war, Bradley used it as a resort again until his death in 1867.

During the 1820s, Bradley was a member of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MY-5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22columbian+institute%22&pg=PA118 |title=The Columbian institute for the promotion of arts and sciences: A Washington Society of 1816-1838. |first=Richard |last=Rathbun |access-date=2010-06-20|year=1904 |publisher=Bulletin of the United States National Museum, October 18, 1917}}

Bradley was a director for the original Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, chartered in 1850.[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=118 Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Marker]

He was interred at Glenwood Cemetery.{{cite news|title=Funeral of William A. Bradley|newspaper=The Evening Star|date=September 2, 1867|page=3}}

In 1887, a new schoolhouse on 13th 1/2 Street SE (later Linworth Place, SE) between C and D was named Bradley School in his honor.{{cite news|title=Untitled report at the bottom of column 5| url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1887-06-27/ed-1/seq-3.pdf|access-date=1 July 2016|work=The Evening Star|date=27 June 1887}} It was closed sometime after 1921.