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James Topham Brady

(1815-1869)
New York


Walter R. Houghton, In Kings of Fortune, or the Triumphs and Achievements of Noble, Self-Made Men 459 (Chicago: Loomis National Library Association, 1888)

James T. Brady was born in New York City, educated in his father's school, and then studied law with his father (who had taken up the legal profession). Brady was admitted to the bar in 1835 at the age of twenty. He gained prominence for his difficult and notorious cases. For brief periods Brady served as Corporation Attorney and as a prosecuting attorney. He was leary of political office and reputedly declined the appointment of Attorney General of the United States.

A Great Advocate: James T. Brady
I. Edwards Clarke, 7 The Galaxy 716 (January-July, 1869)

James T. Brady
The Vault at Pfaff's
An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's
Nineteenth-Century Bohemians
(Lehigh University Digital Library)

An Ancedote about Brady, the lawyer

President Lincoln and the Case of John Yates Beall



Albert Ellery Berg, The Universal Self-Instructor
(New York: Thomas Kelly, Publisher, 1883)

[Used with permission of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology]

Writings

James T. Brady, Trial of Charles B. Huntington for Forgery: Principal Defence—Insanity (New York: J.S. Voorhies, 1857) [online text]

____________, A Christmas Dream (New York: D. Appleton, 1861) [online text] [online text]

John Freeman Baker, James Topham Brady
3 Green Bag 305 (1891)

Bibliography

"James T. Brady," in Walter R. Houghton, In Kings of Fortune, or the Triumphs and Achievements of Noble, Self-Made Men 459-476 (Chicago: Loomis National Library Association, 1888) [online text]

John Freeman Baker, James Topham Brady, 3 Green Bag 305-309 (1891)(signature accompanying photo opposite p. 305)

 



Henry W. Scott, Distinguished American Lawyers, With Their Struggles
and Triumphs In The Forum

(New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1891)


Digital file from original negative, Brady-Handy Photography Collection
Library of Congress