Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom (June 3, 1880 – March 22, 1965) was a Jewish member of the

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from

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. Born in

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to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Rosenbloom attended the

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s and graduated from the North Braddock High School. He attended

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at Morgantown, studied law, was admitted to the

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in 1904 and commenced practice in Wheeling,

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in 1905. He was elected and served as a member of the

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from 1914 to 1918. Rosenbloom was elected from West Virginia's 1st District as a

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to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth

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es (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925) as the first

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member of Congress from West Virginia. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, having become a candidate for the

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for

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in 1924. He resumed the practice of his profession in Wheeling, published a weekly newspaper from 1933 to 1935, was a

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and

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of Wheeling, West Virginia from 1935 to 1939, and retired from law practice in 1951. He died in Cleveland, Ohio on March 22, 1965.

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