Profession MinisterPolitician Spouse(s) Mary Dodge Brodhead | Political party Jacksonian Role American Politician Citizenship US Name John Brodhead | |
Born October 5, 1770Lower Smithfield, Pennsylvania, U.S. ( 1770-10-05 ) Children Daniel Dodge BrodheadJohn Montgomery BrodheadElizabeth Harrison Brodhead NorrisAnne Mudge Brodhead EwensJoseph Crawford BrodheadMehitabel Smith Brodhead WeeksGeorge Hamilton BrodheadMary Rebecca Brodhead PikeOlive BrodheadThornton Fleming BrodheadJosiah Adams BrodheadAlmena Cutter Brodhead. Party Democratic-Republican Party | ||
John Brodhead (October 5, 1770 – April 7, 1838) was a Methodist minister, an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
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Early life
Born in Lower Smithfield, Pennsylvania, Brodhead attended the common schools and Stroudsburg (Pennsylvania) Academy. He studied theology and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1794 remaining active in ministerial service for forty-four years.
Career
Brodhead moved in 1796 to New England, where he became supervisor of Methodist societies in the Connecticut Valley. He settled in Canaan, New Hampshire, in 1801, then moved to Newfields Village, Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1809. From 1810 to about 1823, he occupied the parsonage and preached in the parish church.
A member of the New Hampshire Senate, 1817–1827, Brodhead also officiated as chaplain of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1825.
Elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, Brodhead served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1832 and resumed his ministerial duties.
Death
Brodhead died in Newfields, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, on April 7, 1838 (age 67 years, 184 days). He is interred at Locust Cemetery, Newfields, New Hampshire.
Family life
On August 17, 1801 Brodhead, son of Luke and Elizabeth Harrison Brodhead, married Mary Dodge, daughter of Thomas and Ruth Giddings Dodge. They had twelve children - six sons and six daughters.