James H. McBroom (1889–1978)

Gospel preacher. Bio in Gospel Advocate, May 21, 1942, 487. Gospel preacher listed in Preachers of Today, Vol. 1, 1952, 216. He was baptized by J. W. Shepherd in 1903. While he was attending the New Hope congregation, Readyville, Tennessee. He was immersed in the Stones River nearby. He was a May 18, 1916, graduate of the Nashville Bible School (now David Lipscomb College), the Atlanta Theological Seminary, and the American University in Washington, D. C. While at the Nashville Bible School, he and the late B. C. Goodpasture were partners in the debating society and they never lost a debate! David Lipscomb, H. Leo Boles, S. P. Pitman, and Charles Brewer, were among his teachers.
While in Washington, D.C., he served as the guest chaplain for the United States Senate in the 1930s.