Robert A. Bloomer (November 13, 1921 – December 7, 1999) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate.
Biography Robert Asa Bloomer was born in Proctor, Vermont on November 13, 1921.Vermont Birth Records, 1909-2008, Record for Robert Asa Bloomer, accessed June 23, 2012Vermont Secretary of State, Vermont Legislative Directory, 1979, page 57 Bloomer graduated from the University of Vermont in 1943Coiner Publications, Inc., Personal Injury Trial Counsel, 1967, Robert A. Bloomer page and served as a pilot in the Eighth Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.Merle Halsey Davis, Edith Rebecca Gates Davis, The Ancestry and Descendants of Solomon Davis (1769-1857), 1967, page 147U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death Files, 1850-2010, entry for Robert A. Bloomer, accessed June 23, 2012
In 1947 Bloomer received his law degree from Boston University School of Law 1948, afterwards practicing law in Rutland.Vermont General Assembly, Joint Resolution 69, In Memory of Former Senate President Pro Tempore Robert A. Bloomer, January 5, 2000
A Republican, in 1963 Bloomer was appointed to the seat in the Vermont Senate that was left vacant by the death of his father, and completed his father's term.Bennington Banner, Bloomer's Son Takes Senate Seat, February 26, 1963 He was elected to a full term in 1964 and served until January, 1967.United Press International, Bloomer Runs, Bennington Banner, July 20, 1972
In 1972 Bloomer was again elected to the Vermont Senate, and served from 1973 to 1985.United Press International, Vermont Senate Results, Bennington Banner, November 8, 1972 From 1975 until retiring from the legislature Bloomer was the body's President Pro Tem.United Press International, Bloomer named to Succeed Janeway as Senate President, Bennington Banner, January 8, 1975, Presidents Pro Tempore of the Vermont Senate Since 1870, 2011, page 7
After leaving the Senate Bloomer practiced law, was involved in several civic organizations, and served as Chairman of the District 1 Environmental Board.
Bloomer died in Rutland on December 7, 1999.Social Security Death Index, entry for Robert A. Bloomer, accessed June 23, 2012Alan J. Keays, Rutland Herald, Robert Bloomer, Longtime Senator, Dies at 78, December 8, 1999 He was buried in Rutland's Evergreen Cemetery.Vermont Death Index, 1981-2001, entry for Robert Asa Bloomer, accessed June 23, 2012
Family Robert A. Bloomer's father Asa S. Bloomer and brother John H. Bloomer both served in the Vermont Senate. Asa Bloomer was Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1943 to 1945 and served as Senate President in 1949 and 1955, and from 1959 until his death.James Roger Sharp, Nancy Weatherly Sharp, American Legislative Leaders in the Northeast, 1911-1994, 2000, page 61 John H. Bloomer served as Senate President from 1993 to 1995.
Judith Wener Bloomer Crowley (born 1936), the wife of John H. Bloomer and mother of John H. Bloomer Jr., served in the Vermont Senate from 1995 to 1997 and in the Vermont House from 2001 to 2005.Journal of the Vermont Senate, published by Vermont Senate, February 9, 1995Vermont Secretary of State, State Representative Election Results, 2004, page 31
John H. Bloomer Jr. (born 1960) served in the Vermont Senate from 1997 to 2005. In 2011 he was appointed Secretary of the Senate.Vermont Secretary of State, Biographical Sketches of Federal and State Officers and Members of the General Assembly of 2011-2012, 2011, page 78
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