John Martin Broomall

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

Career

John Broomall attended private schools and then taught himself for some years as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1840 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Chester in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1851 and 1852 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; in 1854 he was a member of the tax committee of his state. Broomall was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the years 1854 and 1858, he ran unsuccessfully for each U.S. House of Representatives. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. In the same year he transferred his residence and his law firm for media. At the beginning of the Civil War he served until 1863 as a captain in the army of the Union.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Broomall was the seventh constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John Dodson Stiles on March 4, 1863. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 three legislative periods. Since 1867 he headed the Committee on Accounts. During his time as a congressman of the Civil War ended. Since 1865 the work of the Congress of the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson was charged, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. In 1868 Broomall renounced another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1874 he was a delegate to a Constitutional Convention of the State of Pennsylvania. In the years 1874 and 1875, he served as a judge in Delaware County. John Broomall died on 3 June 1894 in Philadelphia.