[1] He "became deeply involved in conservative causes",[2] with "a strong sense of anti-communism animat[ing] his political beliefs".
[3] He supported Robert A. Taft for the Presidency in 1952, and Barry Goldwater in 1964.
[2] 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.
[2] His adopted daughter, Marion Bradley Via, lived in Virginia, and died in 1993.
[4] His daughter Jane Bradley Pettit, a philanthropist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died in 2001.