Biography

10/08/1894 - 04/22/1977

David Emmert Brumbaugh (R30) Blair and Huntingdon Counties 1963-1966 (R30) Blair (Part) Bedford and Somerset Counties 1967-1968 

Early Life:  

David Emmert Brumbaugh, born October 8, 1894, Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania; son of Moses Robert Brumbaugh and Sarah Florence Stuart Brumbaugh; public school education, North Woodbury Township, Pennsylvania; summer normal school, Martinsburg, Pennsylvania; International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania; engaged, banking, 1914; private, Thirty-third Division, Fifty-eighth Brigade Headquarters, World War I, 1918-1919; engaged, lumber business, established, insurance agency, 1921; trustee, Pennsylvania Industrial School, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1939-1943; elected, Republican, , United States House of Representatives, 1943 – 1947, not a candidate for renomination, 1946; Secretary of Banking, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1947-1951; president, First National Bank of Claysburg; delegate, Republican National Convention, Pennsylvania, 1956; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1963-1968; married, Carolyn Lovenia Acker Brumbaugh, children, David Robert Brumbaugh, Sumner E. Brumbaugh; died, April 22, 1977 (aged 82), Claysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Trustee, Pennsylvania Industrial School, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1939-1943; president, First National Bank of Claysburg.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 30th district, Blair and Huntingdon Counties, 1963-1966. 

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 30th district, Blair (Part), Bedford and Somerset Counties, 1967-1968.

Continued Government Service/National Politics:

Elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, vacancy, resignation, James E. Van Zandt; reelected, Seventy-ninth Congress, 1943-1947, not a candidate for renomination, 1946.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members B". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

David Emmert Brumbaugh (1894-1977) - Find a Grave Memorial