1.  Anon.  1950.  Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949.  United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (online at Ancestry.com).

p. 892	BRODHEAD, Joseph Davis (son of Richard Brodhead), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Easton, Northampton County, Pa., January 12, 1859; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa.; elected district attorney of Northampton County in 1889; delegate to the
p. 893	Democratic National Conventions in 1892 and 1904; elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908; resumed the practice of law in South Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pa.; appointed judge of the courts of record of Northampton County in 1914; died in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1920; interment in Easton Cemetery, Easton, Pa.

2.  Kirk Bentley Barb.  1971.  "Extract from Genealogy of Jefferson Davis."  Appendix III, pp. 488-508 in Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 1, 1808-1840.  Haskell M. Monroe, Jr., and James T. McIntosh, eds.  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  [Rev. ed. of 1991 not seen.]  Note that Barb wrote his manuscript in 1935, when many of these individuals were still alive.

3.  Haskell M. Monroe., Jr. & James T. McIntosh, eds.  1971.  "Genealogy of the Davis Family."  Appendix IV, pp. 505-529 in Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 1, 1808-1840.  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.  [Rev. ed. of 1991 not seen.]

4.  Ernesto Caldeira.  1983.  "Davis Family Genealogy."  Appendix II, pp. 402-416 in Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 4, 1849-1852.  Linda Lasswell Christ, Mary Seaton Dix, and Richard E. Beringer, eds.  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge.

5.  Genealogy of the Davis Family at Rice University.