Andrew R. Brodbeck
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Andrew R. Brodbeck was a Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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Andrew R. Brodbeck was born in Jefferson, Pennsylvania
Jefferson, Pennsylvania
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. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and taught in the public schools of York County
York County, Pennsylvania
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 from 1878 to 1880. He moved to Hanover, Pennsylvania
Hanover, Pennsylvania
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, 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
63rd United States Congress
- House of Representatives:*Democratic : 291 *Republican : 134*Progressive : 9*Independent : 1TOTAL members: 435-Senate:*President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall*President pro tempore: James P. Clarke-Senate:...

 Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He was again elected to the Sixty-fifth
65th United States Congress
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 Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918. He was a delegate at large to the 1920 Democratic National Convention
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. He retired in 1920 and died in Hanover. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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