Donald Glenn Brotzman (June 28, 1922 – September 15, 2004) was a

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from

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. As of 2025, he remains the last republican to have represented Colorado's 2nd district in the House of Representatives.

History

Brotzman was born on a farm in near Sterling, Colorado in

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to Priscella Ruth Kittle Smith (1895–1986) and Harry Brotzman (1895–1959). He was educated in Logan County schools. He married Louise L. Reed on April 9, 1944. He served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant with the Eighty-first Infantry Division in the South Pacific from 1945 to 1946. Brotzman graduated from the Business School of the

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in 1949; it has since been renamed the

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. He graduated from the

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in 1949. He was

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in 1950 and began practice in

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. He served as member of the

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from 1952 to 1954. He served as member of the

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from 1954 to 1956, serving as Republican caucus leader in 1956. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1954 and 1956. He was appointed

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for Colorado by President Eisenhower and served from 1959 to 1961. Brotzman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965). He was an unsuccessful nominee in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He was elected to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974. Brotzman served as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs from 1975 to 1977. He also served as president of

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and National Rubber Shippers Association, and as chairman of the Industry Safety Council in Washington, D.C. His wife of 51 years, Louise Reed Brotzman, died in 1995. Brotzman died of cancer Sept. 15 at the Fountains at Washington House, a nursing home in Alexandria. He lived in Alexandria. Survivors include his wife, Gwendolyn Davis Brotzman of Alexandria, whom he married in 1996; two children from his first marriage, Kathleen "Kathy" Caldwell of Longmont, Colo., and Donald G. "Chip" Brotzman Jr. of Carbondale, Colo.; a stepson, Robert Higgins of Philippi, W.Va.; a brother; and six grandchildren.

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