As a child prodigy, he entered Yale College for a short time at the age of thirteen, but was expelled for pranks.

[6] Bradley was an agent of the United States under the Treaty of Ghent to fix the boundary line between Maine and Canada from 1815 to 1820.

(Daniel Kellogg, the husband of Bradley's daughter Merab, was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1843, 1844 and 1845.

[11] A bust of Bradley was sculpted around 1860 by sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Mead, and is on display in the Vermont Historical Society museum.

[7][12] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress