[2] In 1932, Braden sought the Republican nomination for sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
[3] and in 1936, was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate from that county,[4] defeating Democratic challenger James H. Deignan to succeed the retiring incumbent Democratic senator William F.
[5] In the state senate, Braden championed efforts to limit or prohibit Sunday liquor sales.
[8] Braden ran for mayor for a last time in 1941, and was again defeated by Ashe, thereafter declaring his retirement from politics.
[9] Braden was married in the late 1910s, but his wife died of influenza in 1918, three months after their marriage.