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Biographical Note

James Edward Bromwell was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 26, 1920, the son of Max T. and Olive MacDuff Bromwell. After attending Johnson grade school and Franklin High school, he graduated from the University of Iowa in 1942. Serving four years in the Army during World War II, where he served in the European Theatre, he enlisted as a private and was discharged as a captain. After the war he attended the Harvard University School of Business. Receiving his MBA in 1947, he returned to the University of Iowa to attend law school. After receiving his LL.B. in 1950, he was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1951. He began to practice law in his hometown of Cedar Rapids. He served as Assistant Linn county attorney from 1956-1959. He also owned and managed a farm near Center Point.

He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 87th Congress on November 8, 1960 as a Republican, and he served in the 88th Congress until 1965. Running for re-election to the House in 1964, he lost to fellow Franklin High school graduate, John C. Culver, a Democrat. He tried for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate in 1968. When his bid proved unsuccessful, he resumed his law practice. Bromwell practiced law in Cedar Rapids until 1986 when he retired.

On September 10, 1946 he married Dorothy Bennett of Mapleton, Iowa. They had four children: Maxwell Thomas II, Helen Kirk, Catherine MacDuff, and James Edward, Jr. Bromwell died in Cedar Rapids  on September 11, 2009.

Scope and Content

The papers of James Edward Bromwell date from 1959 to 1969 and consist of 52.5 linear feet of manuscripts. Organized in three series, the Bromwell papers begin with general subject folders and correspondence. Arranged alphabetically, there are subject folders concerning agriculture, civil rights, education, politics, postal service, Republican Party, and taxation. Correspondents include Robert K. Beck, Gerald Bogan, Norman Erbe, John Henry, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Robert D. Ray, and Fred Schwengel. The second series has to do with campaigns, mostly Bromwell's but including some others.  The third series contains photographs of Bromwell, as well as 9 film reels.

Included among these materials were press releases from the Kennedy White House. These are available in Government Documents in The Public Papers of the Presidents. Also included in this collection were copies of House Rules, reports, Supreme Court decisions and other items that were removed from the collection in the interest of reducing its size. A list of items removed from the collection can be found here. The items themselves can be found in Government Documents.

Box List

SERIES I: GENERAL SUBJECTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Box 1

Biographical sketches of Bromwell

88th Congress

--- Calendars of the United States House of Representatives and History of Legislation,  Legislative Day 148, Calendar Day 148, Sunday October 3, 1964

--- Digest of Public General Bills and Selected Resolutions with Index, 1st Session, Final Issue 1963

--- Digest of Public General Bills and Selected Resolutions with Index, 2nd Session, Cumulative issue No. 2, 1964

--- Major Legislative Actions, Final Edition (Revised)

"A" -- General topics beginning with A, 1961 -- 1963

"A" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964

"A" -- Carbon copies of A correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Addresses by Bromwell

Administrative procedures, 1960 -- 1961

Adoption, 1961 -- 1962

Atomic Energy Commission, 1961 -- 1962

AFL-CIO, 1960 -- 1964

Agriculture

Box 2

Agriculture

U.S. Department -- News Bulletin, 1961 -- 1964

Wheat

Yearbook

Agency for International Development, 1961 -- 1962

Alcohol, 1961 -- 1963

Allis-Chalmers, 1961 -- 1964

American Legion, 1961 -- 1964

Animals, 1962 -- 1963

Anti-Trust, 1961 -- 1963 (4 folders)

Applications -- Washington office, 1960 -- 1964

Apportionment, 1964

Appropriations, 1960 -- 1963

Area Redevelopment Act, 1961 -- 1963

Army, 1961 -- 1964

Ashbrook, John M., 1961 -- 1963

Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963

Automobile Financing, 1961

Aviation, 1961 -- 1964

"B" -- General topics beginning with B, 1961 -- 1964

"B" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964 (Includes letters from Fred Schwengel)

"B" -- Carbon copies of all B correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Box 3

Personal, 1964

Photos, n.d.

Press Releases, 1961 -- 1962

Weekly Column, 1961 -- 1962

Budget, 1961 -- 1965 (2 folders)

"C" -- General topics beginning with C, 1961 -- 1964

"C" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964 (2 folders)

"C" -- Carbon copies of all C correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Calendar, 1962

Capital Punishment, 1962 -- 1963

Capitol Historical Society, 1963 (Includes letter from Fred Schwengel)

Carson, Mrs. Marion C., 1962 -- 1964

Cases -- By name, 1961 -- 1964 (3 folders)

Box 4

Cases -- By name, 1961 -- 1964 (11 folders)

Cedar Rapids Urban Renewal, 1961 -- 1963

Chamber of Commerce, 1961

China, 1960 -- 1964

Christmas, 1962; 1964; 1965

Civil Defense, 1961 -- 1964

Civil Rights, January -- October 1963 (Includes letters from Robert F. Kennedy) (5 folders)

Box 5

Civil Rights, November 1963 -- 1964 (15 folders)

Box 6

Civil Rights Act (2 folders)

Civil Rights Information

Civil Service Commission, 1961 -- 1964

Clay Depletion, 1961

Clinton, 1961 -- 1963 (2 folders)

Coins, 1963 -- 1964

Colleges, 1961 -- 1964

Collins Radio

General, 1961 --1964 (3 folders)

Department of Defense -- AN/PRC Radio, 1963-1964, (5 folders)

Box 7

Collins Radio

Department of Defense -- AN/PRC Radio, 1963-1964, (2 folders)

Common Market, 1961 -- 1963

Communications, 1961 -- 1963

Communism, 1960 -- 1964

Condolences, 1961 -- 1964 (Includes letter from Bourke B. Hickenlooper)

Conference on Aging, 1960 -- 1961

Congratulations

From Bromwell, 1961 -- 1962 (Includes letters from Dwight D. Eisenhower and Norman A. Erbe)

On Re-election, 1962 (Includes letters from Bourke B. Hickenlooper, John Kyl, Jack Miller, and Nelson A. Rockefeller)

Congressional

Committee, 1962

Matters -- General, 1964

Record, 1964

Selected issues, selected pages with marks by Bromwell or his staff

Congressional Quarterly Publictions

Conservation, 1961 -- 1964

Copyright, 1961 -- 1964

Corps of Engineers -- U.S. Army, 1961 -- 1964

County Chairmen -- Visitors, 1961

Crahan, Clem, 1963 -- 1964

Criminal Law, 1964

Cuba, 1961 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Box 8

Cuba, 1961 -- 1964 (1 folder)

Cyprus, 1964

"D" -- General topics that begin with D, 1961 -- 1964

"D" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"D" -- Carbon copies of all D correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Dairy, 1963

Data Processing Center, 1962

Davis-Bacon -- H.R. 9590, 1963 -- 1964

Daylight Savings Time, 1963 -- 1964

Debt -- National, State, and Local, 1962 -- 1963

Defense, 1962 -- 1963

Disarmament, 1961 -- 1964 (Includes letter from Hubert H. Humphrey)

District, 1961 -- 1962

Domestic Peace Corps, 1961 -- 1963

Drafts, 1961 -- 1964

Drugs, 1961 -- 1964

Dutch Elm Disease

"E" -- General topics beginning with E, 1961 -- 1964

"E" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964

"E" -- Carbon copies of all E correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Economy, 1961 -- 1963

Education, 1961-1964 (9 folders)

Box 9

Education, 1961-1964 (2 folders)

Effigy Mounds, 1961

Employment -- Government Agencies, 1961 -- 1964

Equal Pay for Equal Work, 1963

Erbe, Norman, 1961 -- 1962

Extension of Remarks -- Bromwell, 1961 -- 1964

"F" -- General Topics beginning with F, 1961 -- 1964

"F" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"F" -- Carbon Copies of all F correspondence, 1962 -- 1964

"The facts of life regarding postmaster assignments"

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1962 -- 1963

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 1961 -- 1964

4-H, 1963

Farm

Bill, 1962

Bureau, 1960 -- 1964

Legislation, 1962 -- 1963

Federal

General, 1961 -- 1962

Employees, 1960 -- 1964

Firearms, 1961 -- 1964

Flood Control Projects -- By Name (3 folders)

Box 10

Flood Control Projects -- By Name (1 folder)

Fluoridation, 1961 -- 1963

Folding Room, 1963 -- 1964

Food, 1961 -- 1964

Food and Drug Act, 1962 (2 folders)

Football, 1961 -- 1962

Foreign

Aid, 1961 -- 1964 (Including telegram from Nelson A. Rockefeller) (3 folders)

Aid -- Printed materials

Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Policy, 1960 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Trade , 1960 -- 1962

Forms, US House of Representatives

"G" and "H" -- General topics beginning with G and H, 1961 -- 1963

"G" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964

"G" -- Carbon Copies of all G correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Gold, 1961 -- 1963

Great River Road Project, 1962 -- 1964

"H" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964

"H" -- Carbon copies of all H correspondence 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

H.R. 468, 1961

H.R. 4466, 1961

H.R. 5390, 1961

Box 11

Hanford Reactor, 1961 -- 1962

Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), 1962-1964 (2 folders)

Hickenlooper Testimonial Dinner, 1961

Highway Tax, 1961

Highways, 1961 -- 1964

Home Building Project, 1989

Hoover Memorial Library, 1961

Housing, 1961 -- 1964

"I" and "J" and "K" -- General topics beginning with I, J, K, 1961 -- 1964

"I" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1963

"I" and "J" -- Carbon copies of all I and J correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

"I Read Something About You" -- Newspaper clippings, 1963 -- 1964

Immigration, 1961 -- 1964

Imports and Exports, 1961 -- 1964

Income Tax Trial, 1973 -- 1974

Indian Tribe Legislation, 1961 -- 1964

Insurance, 1963 -- 1964

Invitations, 1960 -- 1964 (4 folders)

Iowa

General, 1961 -- 1964 (3 folders)

Box 12

Iowa

General, 1961 -- 1964 (1 folder)

Civil War Centennial, 1961

Delegations, 1961

Republican Committee, 1962 -- 1964

Income Tax Trial 1973-1974

"J" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

James E. Bromwell -- Congressional Record, 1964

Joint Committee -- Republican Principles, 1962 (Including letters from Fred Schwengel)

Joint Senate-House Republican Leadership

Judiciary Committee, 1960 -- 1964 (6 folders)

"K" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964 (Including letters from John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and John Kyl)

"K" -- Carbon copies of all K correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Kennedy Administration, 1961 -- 1962

The Kennedy Log

Knights of Pythias Coin, 1964

Box 13

Kohl, Otto, 1964

"L" -- General topics beginning with L, 1962 -- 1964

"L" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"L" -- Carbon copies of all L correspondence 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Labor, 1960 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Latin America, 1961 -- 1962

Laubach Literacy Fund, 1961

Leif Erickson Day, 1963 -- 1964

The Liberal Papers

Library of Congress, 1960 -- 1964

Livestock

Legislation, 1963

Prices, 1961

"M" -- General topics beginning with M, 1961 -- 1964

"M" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964 (2 folders)

"M" -- Carbon copies of all Mc correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

"M" -- Carbon copies of all M correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Mailing List

Mailing List for Republican Congressional Committee Publications, 1962 -- 1964

Meat Imports (3 folders)

Box 14

Box 15

Medical Care -- Aged, 1961 -- 1964 (1 folder)

Medicare, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Mental Health, 1961 -- 1963

Mexican Farm Labor, 1961 -- 1964

Military

General, 1961 -- 1964

Pay Increase, 1962 -- 1963

Printed material, 1962

Miller, Frederick, 1961 -- 1962

Minimum Wage, 1960 -- 1964

Miscellaneous

Missouri River States Commission, 1962

Monroe Doctrine, 1963

Mosnat, H. Roy, 1961 -- 1962

Music Week, 1961 -- 1962

"N" -- General topics beginning with N, 1961 -- 1963

"N" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964

"N" -- Carbon copies of all N correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1961 -- 1964 (3 folders)

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 1961 -- 1963

Nash, Russell, 1963 -- 1964

National

Defense Language Institute, 1962

Federation of Independent Business Ballots, 1960 -- 1963

Federation of Republican Women, 1963

Guard, 1961 -- 1963

Oats, 1961

Republican Committee, 1961 -- 1963

Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1961

Science Foundation, 1961

Box 16

Naturalized Citizens, 1963 -- 1964

Navy, 1961 -- 1963

Nazette, Richard, n.d.

Newcomers, 1961 -- 1962

Newsletter, 1962 -- 1963 (2 folders)

Newspapers, 1960 -- 1963

Nixon, Richard M., 1961

Norwegian-American Museum Board, 1964

Nuclear Testing, 1961 -- 1962

"O" -- General topics beginning with O, 1961 -- 1964

"O" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"O" -- Carbon copies of all O correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Office

Employees, 1961 -- 1964

Of Civil and Defense Mobilization, 1963

Second District, 1960 -- 1962

Operation

Employment, April -- August 1961

Survival, 1961 -- 1963

Out of State

Correspondence, 1962 (2 folders)

"P" -- General topics beginning with P, 1961 -- 1963

"P" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"P" and "Q" -- Carbon copies of all P and Q correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Pages, 1961 -- 1964 (Includes a letter from Bourke B. Hickenlooper)

Paintings -- 2nd district, 1961 -- 1964

Panama Canal Crisis, 1964

Park, Zoe Pearl, 1961

Patents, 1961 -- 1963

Paul Revere Panel

New Jersey, 1962

Second district, 1961

Southern States, 1961 -- 1962

Pay Increase -- Federal, 1964

Peace Corps, 1961 -- 1964

Personnel, 1961

Pesticides, 1961 -- 1964

Philippine War Damage, 1962

Politics -- State, 1961 -- 1962

Population, 1961

Post Office

Appropriations

Building Facilities, 1962 -- 1964

City Delivery, 1959 -- 1962

Box 17

Box 18

Prayer, 1962 -- 1964 (1 folder)

President's Messages

Press Releases, 1962

Primary Opposition, 1962

Public

Libraries, n.d.

Schools, 1963

Works, 1961 -- 1962

Punte de Este, 1961

"Q" -- General topics beginning with Q, 1963

Quality Stabilization Act, 1962 -- 1964

"R" -- General topics beginning with R, 1962 -- 1964

"R" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"R" -- Carbon copies of all R correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Rural Electrification Administration (REA), 1961 -- 1964

Radio and Television Shows, 1963 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Railroads, 1961 -- 1964 (5 folders)

Realignment of Reserves, 1962

Research on bills

Redistricting, 1961

Republican

Citizens Committee, 1963

Conference

Box 19

Republican

Congressional Committee Newsletter, 1964

87th Club, 1961 -- 1962

Mayors, 1962

National Committee, 1960 -- 1964 (3 folders)

Requests, 1961 -- 1964 (3 folders)

Reserve Units

General, 1961 -- 1962

Active cases, 1961 -- 1962

Inactive cases, 1961 -- 1962 (2 folders)

Second District, 1960 -- 1962

Retirement, 1961 -- 1963

Rockefeller

Rules Committee, 1961 -- 1963

"S" -- General topics beginning with S, 1961 -- 1964

"S" -- Correspondence, 1960 -- 1964 (2 folders)

"S" -- Carbon copies of all S correspondence,1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Sabula Sewer Project, 1959 -- 1961

Salary Reform Plan, 1962

School

Bus Issue, 1963

Lunch Program, 1961 -- 1962

Box 20

Schroeder, Katherine W. Spaulding, 1961 -- 1962

Secretary of Agriculture

Shipe, William T., 1961 -- 1964

Second District meetings, 1961

Service Bands, 1962

Service Star Legion Charter, 1961

Small Boat Harbors, 1961

Small Business Administration, 1961 -- 1964

Smith, Neal, n.d.

Social Security

General, 1960 -- 1964

Religious Exemption, 1961

Soil Conservation Districts, 1961

Soil Tilth Laboratory, 1962

Spain, 1962

State

Appointments, 1960 -- 1962

Department, 1963 -- 1964

Statement of Account, 1961 -- 1962

Steel Controversy, 1962

Sugar, 1961 -- 1962

Supreme Court, 1961 -- 1964

"T" -- General topics beginning with T, 1963 -- 1964

"T" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

"T" -- Carbon copies of all T correspondence, 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

TV and Radio Scripts, 1961 -- 1962.

Box 21

Taxes

General, 1960 -- 1964 (3 folders)

DuPont, 1961 -- 1962

H.R. 10, 1962

Interstate Commerce, 1964

Interim Report of New York State Tax Structure Stury Committee

Savings and Loan, 1961 -- 1962

Withholding, 1961 -- 1962, (2 folders)

Taylor, Richard W., 1963

Telegrams, 1961 -- 1963 (2 folders)

Test Ban, 1961 -- 1964

Thank You's, 1961 -- 1962 (2 folders)

"To the Point" -- Newsletter ideas, 1963

Trade, 1961 -- 1964

Transportation, 1961 -- 1964

Box 22

Treaties, 1962

Trucking, 1962

Truth-In-Lending, 1961 -- 1964

Tuesday Group, 1961

"U" -- General Topics beginning with U, 1961 -- 1964

"U" and "V" -- Carbon copies of all U and V correspondence 1962 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Un-American Activities Committee, 1960 -- 1963

Unanswered Letters, 1961 -- 1964 (2 folders)

Unemployment, 1961 -- 1963

United Nations

General, 1961 -- 1963

Bonds, 1961 -- 1962

University of Hawaii, 1961 -- 1962

Urban, 1961 -- 1964

"V" -- General topics beginning with V, 1961 -- 1964

"V" -- Correspondence, 1961 -- 1964

Vavra, John, 1961 -- 1962

Veterans

General, 1961 -- 1964

Affairs, 1962 -- 1964 (5 folders)

H.R. 4514. A bill to authorize wartime benefits under certain circumstances for peacetime veterans and their dependents

Housing

In hospitals, 1963

Insurance, 1961

Pensions, 1961 -- 1964 (2 folders)