Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom was a United States Representative from West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

, born in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1880. Rosenbloom attended the public schools and graduated from the North Braddock High School, attended West Virginia University

West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...

 at Morgantown

Morgantown, West Virginia

Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is the county seat of Monongalia County. Placed along the banks of the Monongahela River, Morgantown is the largest city in North-Central West Virginia, and the base of the Morgantown metropolitan area...

, studied law, was admitted to the bar

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 in 1904 and commenced practice in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia

Ohio County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 47,427 people, 19,733 households, and 12,155 families residing in the county. The population density was 447 people per square mile . There were 22,166 housing units at an average density of 209 per square mile...

 in 1905.

He was elected and served as a member of the West Virginia State Senate from 1914 to 1918.

Rosenbloom was elected from West Virginia's 1st District

West Virginia's 1st congressional district

West Virginia's 1st congressional district is located in the northern part of the state. It is the most regularly drawn of the state's three districts....

  as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congress

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es (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1925) as the first Jewish member of Congress from West Virginia. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, having become a candidate for the United States Senate

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1924.

He resumed the practice of his profession in Wheeling, published a weekly newspaper from 1933 to 1935, was a councilman and vice mayor of Wheeling, West Virginia from 1935 to 1939, and retired from law practice in 1951. He died in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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on March 22, 1965.