John Martin Broomall

John Martin Broomall

John Martin Broomall (born January 19, 1816 in Upper Chichester Township , Delaware County , Pennsylvania , †  June 3, 1894 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the state of Pennsylvania (7th constituency) in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Broomall attended private schools and then taught himself for a few years. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1840, he began to work in Chester in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1851 and 1852 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ; in 1854 he was a member of his state's tax committee. Broomall became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In the years 1854 and 1858 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. In May 1860, he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , at which Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the same year he moved his residence and his law firm to Media . At the beginning of the civil war he served as a captain in the Union's army until 1863 .

In the congressional elections of 1862 Broomall was elected in the seventh constituency of Pennsylvania to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the Democrat John Dodson Stiles on March 4, 1863 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1869 . From 1867 he headed the Committee on Accounts . During his time as a congressman, the civil war ended. Since 1865, the work of Congress had been weighed down by tension between Republicans and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly unsuccessful impeachment trial. In 1868, Broomall declined to run again.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1874 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention of the state of Pennsylvania. He served as a judge in Delaware County in 1874 and 1875. John Broomall died in Philadelphia on June 3, 1894.

The town of Broomall in Marple Township , which is in his constituency from 1862, was named after him.

Web links

• John Martin Broomall in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Martin Broomall in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
John Dodson Stiles	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (7th constituency) March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1869	Washington Townsend