Editing David C. Broderick (section)

==Legacy==
[[Edward D. Baker|Edward Dickinson Baker]], a close friend of [[Abraham Lincoln]], spoke at Broderick's funeral. He expressed the widely held belief that Broderick was killed because of his anti-slavery stance:

{{blockquote|His death was a political necessity, poorly veiled beneath the guise of a private quarrel. . .What was his public crime? The answer is in his own words; "I die because I was opposed to a corrupt administration and the extension of slavery."<ref>Richards, Leonard. ''The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War'' Prologue, pg. 4, 2008</ref>}}

Some maintain that in his death Broderick became a martyr to the anti-slavery cause, and the episode was part of a national spiral towards civil war. At the Republican National Convention in Chicago in May 1860, a portrait of the late Senator Broderick was hung.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5921990/portrait_of_the_late_sen_david/|title=[untitled paragraph]|work=Brooklyn Evening Star|date=May 16, 1860|page=2|access-date=July 17, 2016|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1864 another portrait would be hung from the flagstaff of the Hibernian Lincoln and Johnson Club in San Francisco.<ref>''Daily Alta California'', 14 October 1864</ref>

About thirty years later, Terry was shot to death by [[United States Marshals Service|Deputy United States Marshal]] [[In re Neagle|David Neagle]] while threatening [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] Justice [[Stephen Johnson Field]], a friend of Broderick.
 
[[Broderick County, Kansas Territory]] was named for the senator.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C/page/n231 235]}}</ref> The former town of [[Broderick, California]], and Broderick Street in San Francisco were also named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/#2280|title = The History of San Francisco Place Names}}</ref>

In 1963, [[Carroll O'Connor]] was cast as Broderick, with [[Brad Dexter]] as Justice Terry, in "A Gun Is Not a Gentleman" on the [[Television syndication|syndicated television]] [[anthology series]], ''[[Death Valley Days]]'', hosted by [[Stanley Andrews]]. The program portrays Terry mortally wounding Senator Broderick in 1859. Though past allies as Democrats, Terry, a defender of slavery, challenges the anti-slavery Broderick to a duel. After he fatally shoots Broderick, Terry is tried, but the case is dismissed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556539/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=A Gun Is Not a Gentleman" on ''Death Valley Days''|date=8 February 1963|publisher=Internet Movie Database|access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref>