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Bernard Braskamp</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #D3D3D3; color: #000000;">Personal</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">February 18, 1887<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">Alton, Ohio</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 22, 1966<span style="display:none">(1966-02-22)</span> (aged 79)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Washington, DC</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data category">Presbyterian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #D3D3D3; color: #000000;">Senior posting</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ordination</th><td class="infobox-data">Presbyterian, 1911 (Ordained in Brooklyn)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous post</th><td class="infobox-data">56th Chaplain, United States House of Representatives</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bernard_Braskamp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Bernard_Braskamp.jpg/300px-Bernard_Braskamp.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Bernard_Braskamp.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="368" data-file-height="274" /></a><figcaption>Chaplain Braskamp delivering the opening prayer for the 80th Congress, 1947</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Bernard Braskamp</b> (February 18, 1887 – February 22, 1966) was a <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a> minister who served as the 56th <a href="/wiki/Chaplain_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives">Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives</a>, from 1950 until his death in 1966. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_works">Life and works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Braskamp&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Braskamp, a Presbyterian minister, served as the 56th House Chaplain, January 3, 1950, until the time of his death in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-house_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-house-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was preceded by the Rev. <a href="/wiki/James_Shera_Montgomery" title="James Shera Montgomery">James Shera Montgomery</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a>, and succeeded by the Rev. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_G._Latch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward G. Latch (page does not exist)">Edward G. Latch</a>, also a Methodist.<sup id="cite_ref-house_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-house-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Braskamp graduated from the University of Michigan in 1908 and the Theological School in Princeton, New Jersey in 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1911, beginning his ministry as Assistant Minister at the Church of the Covenant (which later became known as the National Presbyterian Church).<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1955, he served on the advisory committee that helped create the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Capitol">U.S. Capitol</a> <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Prayer_Room" title="Congressional Prayer Room">Congressional Prayer Room</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-prayer_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prayer-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his time working with the House of Representatives, Braskamp's many prayers included the one that opened the session that passed the historic <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964">Civil Rights Act of 1964</a><sup id="cite_ref-civil_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-civil-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The NY Times reported that "The air of a great occasion hung over the chamber from the moment that Chaplain Bernard Braskamp began his prayer with the quotation from Leviticus engraved on the Liberty Bell: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."<sup id="cite_ref-civil_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-civil-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to his official appointment as Chaplain of the House of Representatives in 1950 he served in that position as Acting Chaplain for three years.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Braskamp died in his <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, home on February 22, 1966, of a stroke.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19660223&id=pWExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YgEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7378,5979505">Obituary from "The Blade," Toledo, Ohio, February 23, 1966</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NYT-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/23/83527424.pdf">Associated Press obituary, published in New York Times February 22, 1966</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-prayer-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-prayer_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shields-up.org/2007/feb/fp_pages/prayer_room_window.htm">Brochure on U.S. Capitol prayer room</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090822000000/http://shields-up.org/2007/feb/fp_pages/prayer_room_window.htm">Archived</a> August 22, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-civil-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-civil_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-civil_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/070364race-ra.html">Kenworthy, E.W., President Signs Civil Rights Bill, New York Times, July 3, 1964</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Braskamp&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Bernard Braskamp, D.D.. at the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the House of Representatives of the United States During the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses, 1961-1964 (U. S. Government Printing Office, 1965)</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FABE60;">Religious titles </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/James_Shera_Montgomery" title="James Shera Montgomery">James Shera Montgomery</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chaplain_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives">56th US House Chaplain</a> </b><br />January 3, 1950 – February 22, 1966 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_G._Latch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward G. Latch (page does not exist)">Edward G. 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