James Bradford Foley (October 18, 1807 – December 5, 1886) was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1857 to 1859.
Biography
Born near Dover, Kentucky, Foley received a limited schooling. He was employed on a flatboat on the Mississippi River in 1823. He moved to Greensburg, Indiana, in 1834.
He engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1834 to 1837, and afterwards in farming. He served as Treasurer of Decatur County from 1841 to 1843. He later served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1850. He was appointed commander of the Fourth Brigade of State militia in 1852.
Congress
Foley was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859).
Later career and death
He resumed agricultural pursuits in Decatur County.
He died in Greensburg, Indiana, December 5, 1886. He was interred in South Park Cemetery.
References
- United States Congress. "James Bradford Foley (id: F000236)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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