David Emmert Brumbaugh was a Republican

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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D. Emmert Brumbaugh was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania

Martinsburg, Pennsylvania

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. He was a student of the International Correspondence Schools

Penn Foster Career School

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 of Scranton, Pennsylvania

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, and in 1914 he became interested in banking at Claysburg, Pennsylvania

Claysburg, Pennsylvania

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. 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

Lumber

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 business and later established an insurance agency. He was a trustee of the Pennsylvania Industrial School in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

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, from 1939 to 1943.

Brumbaugh was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth

78th United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James E. Van Zandt

James E. Van Zandt

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. He was reelected to the Seventy-ninth

79th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946

United States House election, 1946

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. He served as Secretary of Banking of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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, 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

1956 Republican National Convention

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 from Pennsylvania. He served in Pennsylvania State Senate

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from 1963 to 1967.