David Emmert Brumbaugh (October 8, 1894 – April 22, 1977) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
David Emmert Brumbaugh | |
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.jpg) Brumbaugh as Potentate of Altoona, Pennsylvania's Jaffa Shrine, 1952 | |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | |
| In office November 2, 1943 – January 3, 1947 | |
| Preceded by | James E. Van Zandt |
| Succeeded by | James E. Van Zandt |
| Constituency | 23rd district (1943–1945) 22nd district (1945–1947) |
| Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate | |
| In office 1963-1967 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 8, 1894 Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | April 22, 1977 (aged 82) Claysburg, Pennsylvania, US |
| Political party | Republican |
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.
The Republican Party elected Brumbaugh 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 for 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 the 1956 Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1963 to 1967.
References
edit- United States Congress. "D. Emmert Brumbaugh (id: B000976)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-01-24
- D. Emmert Brumbaugh at The Political Graveyard