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David Emmert Brumbaugh Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 22nd districtIn office
1945–1947Preceded by Chester H. Gross Succeeded by James E. Van Zandt Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from 's 23rd districtIn office
1943–1945Preceded by James E. Van Zandt Succeeded by J. Buell Snyder Personal details Born October 8, 1894
Martinsburg, PennsylvaniaDied December 31, 1969 (aged 75)Political party Republican David Emmert Brumbaugh (October 8, 1894 – December 31, 1969) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
D. Emmert Brumbaugh was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a student of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1914 he became interested in banking at Claysburg, Pennsylvania. During the First World War he served as a private in the Thirty-third Division, Fifty-eighth Brigade Headquarters, serving overseas in 1918 and 1919, where he served with his cousin, Dr. David Brumbaugh, who later died in a freak barnstorming accident. In 1921 he became interested in the lumber business and later established an insurance agency. He was a trustee of the Pennsylvania Industrial School in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, from 1939 to 1943.
Brumbaugh was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James E. Van Zandt. He was reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946. He served as Secretary of Banking of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1947 to 1951. He resumed his banking interests as president of the First National Bank of Claysburg. He was a delegate to 1956 Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania. He served in Pennsylvania State Senate from 1963 to 1967.
References
- D. Emmert Brumbaugh at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-01-24
- D. Emmert Brumbaugh at The Political Graveyard
United States House of Representatives Preceded by
James E. Van ZandtMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district
1943–1945Succeeded by
J. Buell SnyderPreceded by
Chester H. GrossMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district
1945–1947Succeeded by
James E. Van ZandtCategories:- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania State Senators
- American bankers
- American military personnel of World War I
- American Congregationalists
- 1894 births
- 1977 deaths
- Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs
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