Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bromwell resided during his boyhood in Newport, Kentucky.

He taught in the public schools of southern Indiana and Cincinnati for twenty-three years.

Bromwell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Caldwell.

He was re-elected to the Fifty-fourth and the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 3, 1894, to March 3, 1903.

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