Editing David C. Broderick (section)

==Feud and death==
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| name =  Broderick-Terry Dueling Place
| image = Broderick-Terry Duel Site.jpg
| caption = Broderick-Terry Dueling Place
| locmapin = California#USA
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| location = 1100 Lake Merced Boulevard, [[Daly City, California]] 
| built = 1859
| architect = [[David S. Terry]] and Broderick
| designation1 = California
| designation1_date = June 1, 1932
| designation1_number = 19<ref>{{cite ohp |19| Broderick-Terry Dueling Place  #19|2012-10-07}}</ref>
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{{Main|Broderick–Terry duel}}
At that time, just prior to the start of the [[American Civil War]], the Democratic Party of California was divided between pro-slavery and "[[Free Soil]]" factions. Broderick led the Free Soilers. One of his closest friends was [[David S. Terry]], formerly the [[Chief Justice]] of the California State Supreme Court. He advocated extending slavery into California. Terry lost his re-election bid because of his pro-slavery platform, and he blamed Broderick for the loss.

Terry, considered even by his friends as caustic and aggressive,<ref>Richards, Leondard. ''The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War,'' "Prologue," pg. 2, 2008</ref> made some inflammatory remarks at a party convention in [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]], which Broderick read. He took offense, and sent Terry an equally vitriolic reply, describing:

{{blockquote|Terry to be a "damned miserable wretch" who was as corrupt as President [[James Buchanan]] and [[William M. Gwin|William Gwin]], California's other senator. "I have hitherto spoken of him as an honest man—as the only honest man on the bench of a miserable, corrupt Supreme Court—but now I find I was mistaken. I take it all back. He is just as bad as the others."<ref>Richards, Leonard. ''The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War,'' "Prologue," pg. 3, 2008</ref>}}

[[File:David C. Broderick, Senator from California, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait LCCN2010649438 Square.jpg|thumb|left|Photograph of Broderick by [[Julian Vannerson]], 1859]]

Passions escalated; on September 13, 1859, former friends Terry and Broderick, both expert marksmen, met outside of [[San Francisco]] city limits at [[Lake Merced]] for a [[Broderick–Terry duel|duel]]. The pistols chosen for the duel had hair triggers, and Broderick's discharged prior to the final "1-2-3" count, firing prematurely into the ground. Thus disarmed, he was forced to stand as Terry shot him in the right lung. Terry at first believed the shot to be only a flesh wound, but it proved to be fatal. Broderick died three days later, and was buried under a monument erected by the state in [[Lone Mountain Cemetery]] in San Francisco. He is the only U.S. Senator ever to be killed in a duel while in office.

In 1942, he was reinterred at [[Cypress Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Colma, California]].