[David Colbreth]. American politician, born in Washington, DC, 1820; killed in California on the 16th of September 1859. He went to the Pacific Slope in 1849, became state senator next year, and in 1856 was elected United States Senator. He got into a difficulty with David S. Terry, then chief justice of the state supreme court, who challenged him, and Broderick fell at the first fire. Terry, in 1889, was shot dead by a United States marshal named Neagle.
