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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214)
2500 East
Fourth Avenue,
80206-4214
(Columbine Street at East Fourth Avenue)

Telephone:
(303) 388-5969
Fax: (720) 424-9355
E-mail: Bromwell@dpsk12.org

Mr. Jonathan Wolfer, Principal

H.P.H. Bromwell - The Biographical Directory of Congress

The United States Congress maintains a Biographical
Directory of all members, past and present. Below is
the entry for Mr. Bromwell, followed by bibliographical
references and related information.





BROMWELL, Henry Pelham Holmes, (1823 - 1903)

BROMWELL, Henry Pelham Holmes, a Representative from Illinois; born in Baltimore, Md., August 26, 1823; moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1824, and thence to Cumberland, Ill., in 1836; attended private schools in Ohio and Illinois, and Marshall Academy, Marshall, Ill.; becoming an instructor in that academy in 1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Vandalia, Ill.; edited his father’s newspaper for several years; judge of Fayette County 1853-1857; took an active part in the founding and building of the Republican Party; moved to Charleston, Coles County, Ill., in 1857; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1870; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1868; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1870 and continued the practice of law; president of the Denver School Board 1871-1874; member of the Territorial council in 1874; delegate to the constitutional convention of Colorado in 1875; declined the office as judge of Arapahoe County in 1878 and the appointment as chief justice of Utah Territory in 1879; appointed by the Governor in 1879 to compile the general statutes of Colorado; died in Denver, Colo., January 7, 1903; interment in Riverside Cemetery.

Guide to Research Collections

Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, DC
Papers: ca. 1794-1929, 2 linear feet.
Bound volumes of correspondence and autographs, an index to the volumes, financial papers, and other papers relating chiefly to Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell’s years as U.S. Representative from Illinois. Includes material concerning Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell’s father, Henry Broughton Bromwell, and his daughter, Henrietta E. Bromwell.


Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Springfield, IL
Papers: 1856, 1 item.
A letter from William B. Archer to Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell written on June 21, 1856. In the letter, William Archer discusses the first Republican Party convention in Philadelphia, 1856 and mentions he nominated Abraham Lincoln for vice president. He also describes a Whig Party meeting in Washington, D.C.


Colorado Historical Society
Denver, CO
Papers: 1852-1917, 1.29 linear feet.
The papers of Henry Pelham Jones Bromwell contain an abstract of title, minutes, clippings, speeches, the manuscript of his “Song of the Wahbeek,” and minutes of the Henry P.H. Bromwell Masonic Publishing Company.


Denver Public Library
Denver, CO
Papers: In the Colorado Constitutional Convention Records, 1876, 0.25 foot.
The collection includes Judge Bromwell’s minority report on suffrage (Feb. 8, 1876).