Charles Napoleon Brumm was a Greenbacker

United States Greenback Party

The Greenback Party was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to paper money, or "greenbacks," that had been issued during the American Civil War and afterward...

 and a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

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Early life and education

Charles N. Brumm was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Pottsville is the only city in and the county seat of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 15,549 at the 2000 census. The city lies along the west bank of the Schuylkill River, north-west of Philadelphia...

. He attended the common schools and Pennsylvania College

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women...

 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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. He studied law for two years.

Civil War

Under the first call of President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 for three-months’ men, Brumm enlisted as a private and was elected the first lieutenant of Company I, Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He reenlisted in 1861 for three years and was elected first lieutenant of Company K, Seventy-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was detailed on the staff of General Barton as assistant quartermaster

Quartermaster

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 and aide-de-camp

Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state...

, which position he held under General Barton and General Galusha Pennypacker

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 until the expiration of his term of service in 1871.

Congressional service

After the war Brumm resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1878.

Brumm was elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-seventh

47th United States Congress

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 and Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congresses and as a Republican to the Forty-ninth

49th United States Congress

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 and Fiftieth Congresses

50th United States Congress

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888

United States House election, 1888

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. He was a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention

1884 Republican National Convention

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Brumm was elected as a Republican to the F543th

54th United States Congress

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 and 55th Congresses

55th United States Congress

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 and served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Claims during these years. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898

United States House election, 1898

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Brumm was again elected to the 59th Congress

59th United States Congress

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 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George R. Patterson. He was reelected to the 60th Congress

60th United States Congress

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 and served until 1909 when he resigned, having been elected judge of the Schuylkill County

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

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 Court of Common Pleas. He served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Mileage

United States House Committee on Mileage

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 during the Sixtieth Congress.

He served as judge until his death at Minersville, Pennsylvania

Minersville, Pennsylvania

Minersville is located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, four miles west of Pottsville. Anthracite coal deposits are plentiful in the region. In 1900, 4,815 people lived here; in 1910, 7,240, people lived here; and in 1940, 8,686 people lived here...

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Inventions

Brumm was known for having a very mechanical mind. He was granted letters patent

Letters patent

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 on a meat cutter, and also invented a brick and mortar elevator, a railroad snow shove, and a self-starting car-brake.

He is the father of Congressman George Franklin Brumm

George Franklin Brumm

George Franklin Brumm was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.George F. Brumm was born in Minersville, Pennsylvania. His father was Congressman Charles N. Brumm. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1901, and...

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