Johnson N. Camden Jr.
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Johnson Newlon Camden Jr. was a United States senator from Kentucky. His father, Johnson N. Camden, had been a United States senator from West Virginia.
Camden in 1906
William O'Connell Bradley
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William O'Connell Bradley was an American politician from the state of Kentucky. He served as the 32nd governor of Kentucky and was later elected by the state legislature as a U.S. senator from that s
Johnson N. Camden Jr.
…of the coal fields in eastern Kentucky. He was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate on June 16, 1914, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of William O. Bradley, whose term was about to expire. Camden did not run for the full term, but won a special election for the last four months of the current term on…
William O. Bradley
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Bradley's opponent in 1887
Parker Watkins Hardin, Bradley's opponent in 1895
The election of a successor to Senator J. C. S. Blackburn dominated the first legislative session of Bradley's term.