William Broomfield

William Broomfield

Infobox_Congressman


name=William Broomfield


state=Michigan
district=18th and 19th
term=1957–1993
preceded=
succeeded=None (District obsolete)
date of birth=Birth date and age|1922|4|28|mf=y
place of birth=Royal Oak, Michigan
date of death=
place of death=
spouse=
profession=Real Estate, Politician
religion=
party=Republican Party|

William S. Broomfield, or Bill Broomfield, (born April 28, 1922) is a retired politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Early life

Broomfield was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He graduated from high school in 1940 and attended Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) at East Lansing. During the Second World War, he served in the United States Army Air Corps. After the war, he engaged in the real-estate and property-management business.

Political career

Broomfield was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1949–1954, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1953. He served in the Michigan State Senate in 1955 and 1956.

In 1956, Broomfield was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 18th District to the United States House of Representatives for the 85th and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1993. Due to redistricting following U.S. Censuses, Broomfield served the 19th District, 1973–1983 and the 18th District, 1983–1993. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the 103rd Congress. The 18th District was discontinued following the 1990 census and for the most part redistricted as the 11th which elected Joe Knollenberg in 1992.

During his tenure in Congress, Broomfield served as a member of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and was ranking member from 1975 until his retirement in 1992.

Retirement

After retirement, Broomfield started a foundation in Michigan that supports various charities in southeast Michigan, including the efforts to cure cancer, spina bifida (his granddaughter born in 1989 was diagnosed with spina bifida), Alzheimer's, and the Salvation Army. He is a resident of Lake Orion, Michigan and currently resides in Kensington, Maryland.

In September 2000, Congress designated the Royal Oak Post Office at 200 West 2nd Street in Royal Oak, Michigan as the "William S. Broomfield Post Office Building".

On December 30, 2006, Broomfield collapsed at the state funeral memorial for former U.S. President Gerald Ford at the United States Capitol, bringing the ceremonies to a temporary pause. He was first attended to by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a physician and cardiac surgeon. The reason given for the collapse was exhaustion. [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/30/D8MBH10O0.html] He was later removed to the Capitol's Office of the Attending Physician in a wheelchair for treatment, where a reported team of seven physicians attended to the former Congressman, who had a weak pulse.

External links

* [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:h.r.4884.enr: H.R. 4884 renaming post office for Broomfield]


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