Walter Ellsworth Brehm was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

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Born in Somerset, Ohio

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, Brehm attended the public schools, Boston (Massachusetts) University

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, and Ohio Wesleyan University

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 at Delaware, Ohio

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He was graduated from the Ohio State University

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 Dental School at Columbus in 1917.
He worked in steel mills, rubber factories, and oil fields after graduation from high school.
He served as member of Company D, Seventh Regiment, Ohio Infantry from 1908 to 1913.
He engaged in the practice of dentistry in Logan, Ohio

Logan, Ohio

As of the census of 2000, there were 6,704 people, 2,790 households, and 1,768 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,175.2 people per square mile . There were 2,948 housing units at an average density of 956.5 per square mile...

 from 1921 to 1942.
Treasurer of the Republican executive committee of Hocking County, Logan City Council from 1936 to 1938.
He served in the State house of representatives 1938-1942.

Brehm was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-eighth

78th United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1953).
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third

83rd United States Congress

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 Congress.
He resumed the practice of dentistry and affiliated with a dental supply company after retirement from active practice.
Resided in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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, until his death there August 24, 1971.

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