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Christian Reformed Politicians in Rhode Island
(Christian Reformed Church;
Reformed Church in America;
Dutch Reformed Church)

Joseph Philo Bradley (1813-1892) — also known as Joseph P. Bradley — Born in Berne, Albany County, N.Y., March 14, 1813. Lawyer; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1870-92; died in office 1892. Christian Reformed. As the only politically independent member of the Electoral Commission to settle the disputed 1876 presidential election, he cast the deciding vote to award all of the disputed electoral votes to the Republican candidate, Rutheford B. Hayes. Died in Washington, D.C., January 22, 1892 (age 78 years, 314 days). Interment at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.   Relatives: Son of Philo Bradley and Mercy (Gardiner) Bradley; married, October 23, 1844, to Mary Hornblower (daughter of Joseph Coerten Hornblower; sister-in-law of Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff; sister of William Henry Hornblower; aunt of William Butler Hornblower; granddaughter of Josiah Hornblower); grandfather of Joseph Gardner Bradley.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Hornblower family of Newark, New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Gold Selleck Silliman (1777-1868) — also known as Gold S. Silliman — of Newport, Newport County, R.I.; Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Conn., October 26, 1777. Whig. Lawyer; postmaster at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1849-53. Christian Reformed. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., June 3, 1868 (age 90 years, 221 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Gold Selleck Silliman (1732-1790) and Mary (Fish) Silliman; brother of Benjamin Silliman; married to Hepsa Ely; father of Benjamin Douglas Silliman; second cousin of Joseph Silliman (1756-1829); second cousin once removed of Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850); second cousin twice removed of Joseph Fitch Silliman; second cousin thrice removed of Dwight Arthur Silliman and Judson Franklin Selleck; third cousin of Abraham Davenport; third cousin once removed of Thaddeus Betts and Jonathan Stratton; third cousin twice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root; third cousin thrice removed of Anson Foster Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of James Kilbourne, Elisha Phelps, Sturges Selleck and Alvan Kidder.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).

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