New Hampshire Legislature
Bradley was elected to the Wolfeboro Planning Board in 1986; three years later, he was named to the Budget Committee. He was a registered Democrat until 1989, when he switched to the Republican party.
Bradley won a seat in the New Hampshire House in November 1990 and was re-elected five times. In the legislature, he sponsored the Clean Power Act, which set limits on power plant emissions. He was chairman of the Science, Technology and Energy Committee, as well as the Joint Committee on Ethics.
He returned to the New Hampshire legislature in April 2009, when he won a special election for his local State Senate seat. The seat became vacant because the newly elected incumbent, Bill Denley, resigned the seat after being charged with drunk driving.
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