D. Emmert Brumbaugh

David Emmert Brumbaugh
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 22nd district
In office January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947
Preceded by	Chester H. Gross
Succeeded by	James E. Van Zandt
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 23rd district
In office November 2, 1943 – January 3, 1945
Preceded by	James E. Van Zandt
Succeeded by	J. Buell Snyder
Personal details
Born	(1894-10-08)October 8, 1894 Martinsburg, Pennsylvania
Died
Political party	Republican

David Emmert Brumbaugh (October 8, 1894 – April 22, 1977) 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.

Brumbaugh was elected as a Republican 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 of 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 1956 Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania. He served in Pennsylvania State Senate from 1963 to 1967.

References

• D. Emmert Brumbaugh at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-01-24
• D. Emmert Brumbaugh at The Political Graveyard

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by James E. Van Zandt	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district 1943–1945	Succeeded by J. Buell Snyder
Preceded by Chester H. Gross	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district 1945–1947	Succeeded by James E. Van Zandt