ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -After overcoming illness himself, and the death of first Governor John Carver, Bradford was elected to lead Plymouth Colony and was subsequently re-elected 31 times before his death, missing only five years.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. William Bradford (l. 1590-1657 CE) was one of the leading members of the congregation of pilgrims who came to North America aboard the Mayflower, a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and the second governor of the Plymouth Colony after the death of the first, John Carver (l. 1584-1621 CE), in 1621 CE.

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.