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Harry Lynde Bradley

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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Bradley Foundation

Occupation
  
Inventor


Employer
  
Children
  
Jane Bradley Pettit

Name
  
Harry Bradley

Siblings
  
Lynde Bradley


Born
  
January 5, 1885 (
1885-01-05
)
Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Died
  
July 23, 1965, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Resting place
  

Harry Lynde Bradley (January 5, 1885 – July 23, 1965), the brother of Lynde Bradley, was the co-founder of the Allen-Bradley Company and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He "became deeply involved in conservative causes", with "a strong sense of anti-communism animat[ing] his political beliefs". He supported Robert A. Taft for the Presidency in 1952, and Barry Goldwater in 1964.

The Foundation, however, remained relatively small-scale until twenty years after Bradley's death, with the billion-dollar sale of Allen-Bradley to Rockwell Automation, which swelled the Foundation's assets from around $14m to around $290m.

His adopted daughter, Marion Bradley Via, lived in Virginia, and died in 1993. His daughter Jane Bradley Pettit, a philanthropist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died in 2001.

Books

  • Gurda, John (1992), The Bradley legacy: Lynde and Harry Bradley, their company, and their foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
  • References

    Harry Lynde Bradley Wikipedia


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