ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Bradford, (born March 1590, Austerfield, Yorkshire, England-died May 9, 1657, Plymouth, Massachusetts [U.S.]), governor of the Plymouth colony for 30 years, who helped shape and stabilize the political institutions of the first permanent colony in New England.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. He served as a commissioner of the United Colonies of New England on multiple occasions and served twice as president.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Bradford is known as one of the first Pilgrims to the New World in search of religious freedom from the Church of England. He was part of the religious movement known as “Separatists” and led the way in the Plymouth Colony for those that wanted a peaceful life without fear of punishment by the British.

Detailed explanation-4: -He was the first signature on the historic Mayflower Compact, the first governor of the Plymouth colony and the man who negotiated peace with the Native American Wampanoag community. But John Carver would never live to see the new life he had built for the passengers of the Mayflower in the New World.

Detailed explanation-5: -ROBERT F. BRADFORD, the fifty-ninth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 15, 1902. His early education was attained at the Brown and Nichols School, and later at Harvard University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1923 and his law degree in 1926.