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Marriott Henry Brosius (March 7, 1843 – March 16, 1901) was a
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member of the
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from
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.


Education and military service

Marriott Brosius was born in
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, where he attended Thomas Baker's Academy. During the
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, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Ninety-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in October 1861, for three years, and reenlisted May 1864. He was honorably discharged in December 1864. On February 28, 1865, was commissioned a second lieutenant for bravery on the field of battle. After the war he attended the State Normal School at
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, and the law department of the
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at Ann Arbor. He was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.


House of Representatives

Brosius was elected as a Republican to the 51st and to the six succeeding Congresses. He was chairman of the
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during the 54th and 55th Congresses, and of the
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during the 56th Congress. He served until his death in Lancaster in 1901, aged 58. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.


See also

* List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)


References


Profile
Politicalgraveyard.com; accessed March 7, 2017.
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Marriott Brosius, late a representative from Pennsylvania delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1902
1843 births 1901 deaths Union Army officers Pennsylvania lawyers Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War People from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-politician-stub