James Brady

Centralia is a town located in Marion, Washington, Clinton, and Jefferson Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 13,032 at the 2010 census. The town was founded because it was the point where the two original branches of the Illinois Central Railroad, built in 1853, converged.... The town is named for the railroad. The current mayor is Tom Ashby. Because of its unique location within multiple counties, portions of Centralia are associated with different Core Based Statistical Areas . The Centralia Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Marion County. The Clinton County portion of the city is considered part of the St. Louis, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Jefferson County portion lies within the Mt. Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area. The portion of Centralia in Washington County is not considered part of any metropolitan or micropolitan area. Centralia is located approximately 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Sarah Brady is the wife of former White House Press Secretary James Brady. She was born to L. Stanley Kemp, a high school teacher and later FBI agent, and Frances Stufflebean Kemp, a former teacher and homemaker. She has one younger brother, Bill. She was born as Sarah Jane Kemp in Missouri and... raised in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1964. From 1964 to 1968 she was a public school teacher in Virginia. She married James Brady in Alexandria, Virginia on July 21, 1973. On December 29, 1978, their only son, James Scott Brady, Jr., was born. From 1968 to 1970 she worked as assistant to the campaign director for the National Republican Congressional Committee. She then worked as an administrative aide, first for Mike McKevitt and then for Joseph J. Maraziti . From 1974 to 1978 Sarah Brady worked as director of administration and coordinator of field services for the Republican National Committee. Her husband sustained a permanently disabling head wound during the Reagan assassination attempt which occurred on March 30, 1981.
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