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Preceded by
  
Cyrus William Beales

Name
  
Andrew Brodbeck

Preceded by
  
Daniel F. Lafean

Role
  
U.S. representative


Party
  
Democratic Party

Political party
  
Democratic

Resigned
  
March 3, 1919

Andrew R. Brodbeck

Succeeded by
  
Edward Schroeder Brooks

Born
  
April 11, 1860 Jefferson, Pennsylvania (
1860-04-11
)

Died
  
February 27, 1937, Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States

Succeeded by
  
Cyrus William Beales

Andrew R. Brodbeck (April 11, 1860 – February 27, 1937) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Andrew R. Brodbeck was born in Jefferson, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and taught in the public schools of York County from 1878 to 1880. He moved to Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1880 and engaged in the farm implement and fertilizer business until 1896. He served as sheriff of York County from 1896 to 1899. He was a member of the board of directors of various business enterprises. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1910.

Brodbeck was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He was again elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918. He was a delegate at large to the 1920 Democratic National Convention. He retired in 1920 and died in Hanover. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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Andrew R. Brodbeck Wikipedia