Adam John Glossbrenner (August 31, 1810 – March 1, 1889) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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Biography

Adam J. Glossbrenner was born in

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. He learned the art of printing, and became publisher of the ''Western Telegraph'' in

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, in 1827 and 1828. He moved to

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, in 1829. He established the '' York County Farmer'' in 1831, and became a partner in the '' York Gazette'' in 1835, and continued his connection with that paper until 1860. He served as clerk in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1836. He was

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during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, and in the

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at Washington, D.C., in 1848 and 1849. He was Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives from 1850 to 1860. He served as private secretary to President

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in 1860 and 1861. He established the '' Philadelphia Age'' in 1862, although residing in York, Pennsylvania. Glossbrenner was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. Following his political career he engaged in banking in York in 1872. He moved to Philadelphia in 1880, and was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company until his death in that city in 1889, aged 78. He was interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery in

Sources

The Political Graveyard

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glossbrenner, Adam John 1810 births 1889 deaths Sergeants at Arms of the United States House of Representatives Politicians from Philadelphia Politicians from York, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians