Addison Bradford Jr. Memorial Scholarship

Addison M. Bradford was born in La Grange, Arkansas and was reared in Forrest City. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the then-Arkansas State College in 1939, served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and graduated from Southern Methodist University’s law school in 1948. He was senior partner in Bradford and Snyder, a Dallas, Texas law firm, and received national prominence in Life magazine and on the Art Linkletter television show during the early 1950s for a case he represented. Additionally, he was admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was one of ASU’s first Distinguished Alumnus, having been elected in 1984. Following his death in 1988, a scholarship to benefit an outstanding Forrest City student bound for ASU was established by his wife, Grace Peggy Bradford,