Harry Lynde Bradley (January 5, 1885 – July 23, 1965), the brother of Lynde Bradley, was the co-founder of the Allen-Bradley Company and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.Bradley family has made a tradition of giving , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 6, 1985 He "became deeply involved in conservative causes",John J. Miller (2003), "The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation", in How Two Foundations Reshaped America, Philanthropy Roundtable with "a strong sense of anti-communism animat[ing] his political beliefs". He was a founding member of the John Birch Society. He supported Robert A. Taft for the Presidency in 1952, and Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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.
His adopted daughter, Marion Bradley Via, lived in Virginia, and died in 1993.His son Harry Lynda Bradley Junior died February 13, 1995. Lived in Massachusetts. Bradley heir Via dies in Virginia, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 5, 1993 His daughter Jane Bradley Pettit, a philanthropist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died in 2001.Jane Pettit was philanthropist beyond compare, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 16, 2001
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External links From local roots, Bradley Foundation builds conservative empire Our founding families: Bradley Family