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Gamaliel Bradford, 1831-1911.

American banker, economist and political theorist..

Gamaliel Bradford was one of a long line of "Gamaliel Bradfords" of Boston, Massachusetts, a patrician family descended from the Mayflower pilgrim William Bradford. Our Gamaliel Bradford was the fifth of that name.  His namesake father (the fourth) was a notable physician.

Gamaliel Bradford graduated from Harvard in 1849 and subsequently embarked on a banking career, joining the house of Blake Brothers & Co., ascending to partner by 1858. Bradford retired from banking in 1868, and devoted himself to the social sciences, writing especially on politics. He is best known for his Lesson on Popular Government (1899). 

Bradford served as the treasurer of the American Social Science Association in the 1870s.  Bradford was the principal organizer of the American Anti-Imperialist League, founded in 1898 in Boston, to organize opposition to US colonialism and territorial expansion.

Bradford's son, the sixth Gamaliel, was a notable author.

 

  

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Major Works of Gamaliel Bradford

  • "The Treasury Reports", 1870, NAR (Jan), p.209 [av]
  • "Congressional Reform", 1870, NAR (Oct), p.330 [av]
  • "Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States", 1874, NAR (Jan), p.1 (review of Bagehot)
  • "Lombard and Wall Streets", 1874, NAR (Oct), p.331 [av] (review of Bagehot)
  • "Congress and the Cabinet", 1891, AAPSS (Nov), p.289 [av]
  • "Our failures in municipal government", 1893, AAPSS (May), p.23 [av]
  • "Congress and the Cabinet - II", 1893, AAPSS (Nov) [av]
  • "The Referendum in America", 1894, AAPSS (Jan) [av]
  • "Reform of our State governments", 1894, AAPSS [av]
  • Types of American Character, 1895 [av]
  • "The Permanence of Parliamentary Government", 1899, Harvard LR (Dec), p.256 [av]
  • The Lesson of Popular Government. 1899 v.1, v.2 [av1, av2]

 
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