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David B. Brunner (March 7, 1835 – November 29, 1903) was a Democratic member of the
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Biography

David B. Brunner was born in Amity, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and learned the
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’s trade. He taught school from 1853 to 1856, during which time he studied the classics. He graduated from
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in
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, in 1860. He served as principal of the Reading Classical Academy in
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, from 1860 to 1869. He established the Reading Business College in 1880. Brunner was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in
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. He taught at the Reading Business College and died in Reading in 1903 and was interred in Amityville Cemetery. Brunner was also the author of several
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poems, including "Wann ich yuscht en Bauer waer" ("If only I were a farmer")."Brunner, David B," ''The Political Graveyard''.


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The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brunner, David B. 1835 births 1903 deaths Politicians from Reading, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Dickinson College alumni 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives