Rosenbloom, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Louis), 1880-1965

Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom (June 3, 1880 – March 22, 1965) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented West Virginia's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1925. Rosenbloom was the first Jewish member of Congress from West Virginia.

Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Rosenbloom attended the public schools there. He graduated from North Braddock High School before attending West Virginia University at Morgantown, studying law, and being admitted to the bar in 1904. He commenced practice in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1905. He was elected and served as a member of the West Virginia State Senate from 1914 to 1918.

In 1920, Rosemnbloom was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from West Virginia's 1st congressional district, serving in the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, instead unsuccessfully running as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Subsequent bids for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1928 and 1930 were also unsuccessful. 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.

Rosembloom died in Cleveland, Ohio on March 22, 1965.