Lewis R. Bradley


Lewis Rice Broadhorns Bradley was an American politician. He was the second Governor of Nevada in the United States from 1871 to 1879. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Bradley was born on February 18, 1805 in Orange County, Virginia. When he was thirteen years old, his father died and he quit school and became a mule trader to support his mother and his many younger siblings. He married Virginia Hode Willis and the couple had three children. He moved to Missouri, the mule capital of the nation. His wife, Virginia, died May 11, 1852 in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri.

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