Edward McBroom (February 18, 1925 – October 2, 1990) was an American farmer, businessman, and politician.
Born in
Kankakee, Illinois
Kankakee is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. As of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area. It serves as an ...
, McBroom served in the
United States Navy. He went to the
University of Illinois. McBroom owned an automobile dealership and a travel agency.
He also owned a farm. McBroom served as a
Republican member of the
Illinois House of Representatives
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 re ...
from 1963 to 1965 and from 1977 to 1983. He also served in the
Illinois Senate
The Illinois Senate is the Upper house, upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state, State of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adop ...
from 1967 until his loss to
Jerome J. Joyce in the 1974 general election as part of the anti-Watergate backlash. In 1976, President
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...
appointed McBroom to the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. After his second House tenure, he served on the Board of Review of the
Illinois Department of Employment Security until at least 1989.
McBroom served as the Chairman of the
Kankakee County Republican Party for twenty-two years.
Political observer Rich Miller, publisher of
Capitol Fax, compared McBroom's political control in Kankakee to that of
Richard J. Daley in
Cook County. McBroom died at St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois.
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1925 births
1990 deaths
American automobile salespeople
People from Kankakee, Illinois
Military personnel from Illinois
University of Illinois alumni
Businesspeople from Illinois
Farmers from Illinois
Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
Republican Party Illinois state senators
20th-century American legislators
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century Illinois politicians
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