Henry P. H. Bromwell

Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell ( born August 26, 1823 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 7, 1903 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1824 Henry Browmwell moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1836 the Cumberland County in Illinois. He attended private schools in its respective home as well as the Marshall Academy in Illinois. In 1844 he became a teacher at this school. After a subsequent law degree in 1853 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Vandalia to work in this profession. In addition, he edited the newspaper his father for several years. From 1853 to 1857 he was a judge in Fayette County. Politically Bromwell was instrumental in the founding and development of the Republican Party in Illinois. Since 1857 he lived in Charleston.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Bromwell was in the seventh election district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John R. Eden on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. In this time, the end of the Civil War fell. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. In 1868, Bromwell has not been nominated by his party for re-election.

Henry Bromwell 1870 was a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of his country. He then moved to Denver in the Colorado Territory, where he practiced as a lawyer. Between 1871 and 1874 he directed the School Committee of the city of Denver. In 1874 he was a member of the Territorial Government; In 1875 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the future State of Colorado. In the following years he rejected some of it is transmitted Judges. In 1879 he was entrusted with the summary of the general laws of the State of Colorado. In the 1880s, he switched to the Democratic Party. He died on January 7, 1903 in Denver after a long illness.