- Benjamin L. Rosenbloom
Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom was a
United States Representative fromWest Virginia , born inBraddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ,June 3 ,1880 . Rosenbloom attended thepublic school s and graduated from theNorth Braddock High School , attended theUniversity of West Virginia at Morgantown, studied law, was admitted to thebar in 1904 and commenced practice in Wheeling,Ohio County, West Virginia in 1905.He was elected and served as a member of the West Virginia
State Senate from 1914 to 1918.Rosenbloom was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (
March 4 1921 -March 3 1925 ) as the firstJewish member of Congress from West Virginia. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, having become a candidate for theUnited States Senate . He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination forUnited States Senator in 1924.He resumed the practice of his profession in Wheeling, published a weekly newspaper from 1933 to 1935, was a
councilman andvice mayor of Wheeling, West Virginia from 1935 to 1939, and retired from law practice in 1951. He died inCleveland, Ohio onMarch 22 ,1965 .
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