Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014)

Benjamin C. Bradlee was born Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts on December 26, 1921 to Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. and Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff. His father was born in Boston on December 20, 1892 and died on April 28, 1970 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. Bradlee's mother Josephine was born in Manhattan, New York on June 18, 1896 and died on October 15, 1975 also in Beverly, Massachusetts; they married in Beverly on July 3, 1917 and had three children.