BROOMFIELD, William S. (1922-2019)

Republican of Michigan

18th congressional district

Served in House 1957-1992

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Biography

Representative from Michigan; born in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Mich., April 28, 1922; graduated from high school in 1940; attended Michigan State College at East Lansing; during the Second World War served in the United States Army Air Corps; engaged in the real-estate and property-management business; member of the State house of representatives 1949-1954, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1953; served in the State senate in 1955 and 1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress; died on February 20, 2019, in Kensington, Md.; interment at White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery, Troy, Mich.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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