James Henry Brady was a U.S. politician from the Republican Party

Republican Party (United States)

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. He served as the eighth Governor of Idaho

Idaho

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 from 1909 to 1911 and a United States Senator

United States Senate

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 representing Idaho from 1913 until his death.

Biography

Brady was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Indiana County, Pennsylvania

-Government and politics:As of November 2008, there are 58,077 registered voters in Indiana County .* Democratic: 26,653 * Republican: 24,159 * Other Parties: 7,265 -County commissioners:*Rodney Ruddock, Chairman, Republican...

 on June 12, 1862. He moved with his parents to Johnson County, Kansas

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 in 1865. He was initially elected by the Idaho Legislature

Idaho Legislature

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 to replace Kirtland Irving Perky in the Senate. In 1914 he became the first person elected to the Senate from Idaho by direct popular vote, defeating former Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 Governor James H. Hawley

James H. Hawley

James Henry Hawley was the ninth Governor of Idaho from 1911 until 1913. Hawley also served as mayor of Boise from 1903 to 1905.-Biography:...

 and a handful of minor party candidates. While in office, Brady suffered a heart attack. Two weeks later he died in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1918. He was cremated and the ashes deposited in the James H. Brady Memorial Chapel in Mountain View Cemetery

Mountain View Cemetery

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 in Pocatello, Idaho

Pocatello, Idaho

Pocatello is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the Pocatello metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Bannock...

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Legacy

Brady's great-grandson, Jerry Brady

Jerry Brady

Jerry Michael Brady is an Idaho politician and owns a newspaper that is distributed in southeast Idaho...

, was the 2002 and 2006 Democratic candidate for Governor of Idaho.

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