Born in
Braddock, Pennsylvania to
Russian-Jewish immigrants, Rosenbloom attended the
public schools and graduated from the North Braddock High School. He attended
West Virginia University at
Morgantown, studied law, was admitted to the
bar in 1904 and commenced practice in
Wheeling,
Ohio County, West Virginia in 1905.
Political career He was elected and served as a
West Virginia State Senate member from 1914 to 1918. Rosenbloom was elected from
West Virginia's 1st District as a
Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth
Congresses (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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for
United States Senator in 1924.
Later career 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.
Death He died in
Cleveland, Ohio on March 22, 1965. ==See also==