David Emmert Brumbaugh (October 8, 1894 – April 22, 1977) was an American politician. He was a

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member of the

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from

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. D. Emmert Brumbaugh was born in

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. He was a student of the

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, and in 1914 he became interested in banking at

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. During the

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he served as a private in the Thirty-third Division, Fifty-eighth Brigade Headquarters, serving overseas in 1918 and 1919, where he served with his cousin, Dr. David Brumbaugh, who later died in a freak barnstorming accident. In 1921 he became interested in the

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business and later established an insurance agency. He was a trustee of the Pennsylvania Industrial School in

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, from 1939 to 1943. Brumbaugh was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James E. Van Zandt. He was reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946. He served as Secretary of Banking of the

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in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1947 to 1951. He resumed his banking interests as president of the First National Bank of Claysburg. He was a delegate to

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from Pennsylvania. He served in Pennsylvania State Senate from 1963 to 1967.

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