About Tom Bradford
Lived 1869 – 1932 (aged 63). Tom Bradford was an American politician.
Thomas Leonard Bradford (February 13, 1869 – August 22, 1932) was Mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1931 until his death by heart attack in 1932.
Tom Bradford was born in Port Hudson, Louisiana to the Rev. Harrison Bradford and Elizabeth Shelmire Bradford. Bradford graduated from Centenary College of Louisiana before moving to Dallas in 1887. As the first Dallas mayor elected under the council-manager system of municipal government adopted on October 10, 1930, Bradford was first elected to the eight-member council by Dallas voters, and then elected mayor by his fellow councilmen.
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Tom Bradford died on 22 August 1932.
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