Benjamin L. Rosenbloom

Benjamin L. Rosenbloom

Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom (born June 3, 1880 in Braddock , Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , †  March 22, 1965 in Cleveland , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1925 he represented the first constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Rosenbloom attended his homeland public schools including North Braddock High School . He later studied at the University of West Virginia at Morgantown . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1904, he began to work in his new profession in 1905 in Wheeling (West Virginia).

Rosenbloom was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1914 and 1918 he was a member of the West Virginia Senate . In 1920 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of the state . There he stepped on March 4, 1921 to succeed the Democrat Matthew M. Neely , whom he had previously narrowly defeated. After re-election in 1922, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1925 .

In 1924 he renounced another candidacy. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . After leaving Congress, Rosenbloom worked again as a lawyer in Wheeling until 1951. There he also published a weekly newspaper between 1933 and 1935. Between 1935 and 1939 he was a councilor and deputy mayor of Wheeling. In 1951 he gave up his practice as a lawyer and retired. Benjamin Rosenbloom died in Cleveland in March 1965.

Web links

• Benjamin L. Rosenbloom in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)