Pueblo County, Colorado
Allen Alexander BRADFORD

Contributed by Karen Mitchell

Allen Alexander BRADFORD, a Delegate from the Territory of Colorado; born in Friendship, Maine, July 23, 1815; moved to Missouri in 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; clerk of the circuit court of Atchison County, Mo., 1845-1851; moved to Iowa and was judge of the sixth judicial district 1852-1855; moved to the Territory of Nebraska; served as a member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1856, 1857, and 1858; moved to the Territory of Colorado in 1860; appointed judge of the supreme court of the Territory by President Lincoln on June 6, 1862; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); resumed the practice of law; elected to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); engaged in the practice of law in Pueblo, Colo., until his death there March 12, 1888; interment in the City Cemetery.


Contributed by Karen Mitchell and Jean Griesan. Photo by Floyd Kelling.



Allen Bradford 1815 – 1888
Allen A. Bradford, native of Maine, was a seventh-generation descendant of Governor Bradford who came to the Colonies on the Mayflower. He held public office in Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska before moving to Colorado in 1860. He came to Pueblo in 1861. Bradford was appointed as judge on the Supreme Court of Colorado in 1863. He was elected delegate to the Congress in 1864 and 1868, resigning in 1871 because of ill health. A government land office was located in Pueblo in 1871 through his efforts. Later he was a Pueblo County attorney. His son, Thomas A. Bradford, was admitted to the bar in 1875, the first young man reared in Colorado to achieve this distinction. For a time father and son were in legal practice in the San Luis Valley and Pueblo.


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