James H. Brady, served from 1913 to 1918

James Brady was born on June 12, 1862, in Indiana County, PA. He later moved to Johnson County, Kansas where he attended school at Leavenworth Normal College. He taught school and was an editor of a newspaper in Enterprise, Kansas. He also sold real estate for a time in Abilene, KA.

Brady moved to Idaho in 1895. He became involved with the development of waterpower and irrigation.

He was the chairman of the Republican State central committee in 1904-1908. He was the president of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and the vice-president of the National Irrigation Congress in 1904-1906. He was elected as the Governor of Idaho in 1909-1911. Later he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on January 24, 1913, to fill the vacancy left when Weldon B. Heyburn passed away. Brady was then reelected in 1914 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., January 13, 1918. He was cremated and the ashes are deposited in the James H. Brady Memorial Chapel in Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Idaho.

During the Senate he served as chairman of the Committee on National Banks, Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers.

Bibliography

U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for James Henry Brady. 65th Cong., 3rd session., 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office

Photos provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.  Biographical information compiled by Congressional Research Service.