George Franklin Brumm (January 24, 1878May 29, 1934) was a

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member of the

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from

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. George F. Brumm was born in 1878 in

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/ref> His father was Congressman

Charles N. Brumm Charles Napoleon Brumm (June 9, 1838 – January 11, 1917) was a Greenbacker and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Early life and education Charles N. Brumm was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He ...

. He graduated from the

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, in 1901, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1907. He served in a Pennsylvania National Guard engineer unit on the Mexican border in 1916. He was the election commissioner for

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in 1918 to take the vote of servicemen at cantonments, and an attorney for the conscription board during

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. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the nomination to Congress in 1918 and 1920. Brumm was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the succeeding Congress. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy during the Sixty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926. He was again elected to the Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses. He died in office in

, and was buried in Charles Baber Cemetery in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brumm, George F. Brumm, George Franklin 1878 births 1934 deaths Burials at Charles Baber Cemetery University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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