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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Broderick, David Colbreth
Broderick, David Colbreth (cousin of Andrew Kennedy), a Senator from California; born in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1820, his father having emigrated from Ireland to work as a stonecutter on the Capitol; moved with his parents to New York, in 1823; attended the common schools; apprenticed to a stonecutter in early youth; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; moved to California in 1849 and engaged in smelting and assaying gold; delegate to the constitutional convention of California in 1849; member of the State senate in 1850 and 1851, serving as president of that body in the latter year; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1857, until mortally wounded in a duel with David S. Terry, chief justice of the supreme court of California; died near San Francisco, Calif., September 16, 1859; interment under a monument erected by the people of the State in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Broderick, David Colbreth," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.892 Original Sources, accessed February 11, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GLULYMYPH32NJRP.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Broderick, David Colbreth." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.892, Original Sources. 11 Feb. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GLULYMYPH32NJRP.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Broderick, David Colbreth' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.892. Original Sources, retrieved 11 February 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GLULYMYPH32NJRP.
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