D. Emmert Brumbaugh

David Emmert Brumbaugh
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	(1894-10-08)October 8, 1894 Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Died	April 22, 1977(1977-04-22) (aged 82) Claysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Political party	Republican

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.

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

• 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