US Congressman, 9th New Jersey Governor. He was born one of three children (he also had two brothers, Henry Vroom and George Beekman Vroom, but he also had six half-siblings) to Colonel Peter Dumont Vroom Sr., who represented Somerset County, New Jersey as an Assemblyman from 1790 to 1791, 1794 to 1796, and 1811 to 1813, and as a Federalist in the New Jersey Legislative Council from 1798 to 1804, and his wife, Elsie Bogart Vroom in Hillsborough, New Jersey. He was educated in local and common schools and eventually attended the prestigious Columbia College in New York where he graduated from in 1808, and Somerville Academy in Somerville, New Jersey, where he studied law. After his education, he was admitted to the bar in 1813, and commenced to practicing law in his birthplace of Hillsborough, New Jersey, before relocating to Somerville, New Jersey. In 1817, he married for the first time to Anna Dumont Vroom and the couple had seven children (Peter Dumont Vroom was born in 1819, Susan Dumont Vroom was born in 1821, Elsie Bogart Vroom was born in 1823, Frederick Vroom was born in 1824, Maria Elmendorf Vroom was born in 1825, Guysbert Bogart Vroom was born in 1828, and John P. Vroom was born in 1830). He then entered public service and was elected as a Member of the New Jersey State House of Representatives from Somerset County, New Jersey, and served in that position from 1826 to 1827, and again in 1829. In 1828, he was named a Sergeant At Law. He then decided to run as a Jacksonian for the job of the Governor of New Jersey and was elected. He served as the 9th Governor of the State of New Jersey from 1829 to 1832. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832. He, however, was elected to a second term as the 9th Governor of New Jersey and served from 1833 to 1836. While serving as the Governor of New Jersey he was a supporter in the establishment of the Camden and Amboy Railroad and the Delaware and Raritan Canal. He was succeeded in the office of Governor of New Jersey by United States Senator Samuel Lewis Southard. During that time he also served two terms as the Chancellor of the New Jersey Court of Chancery from 1829 to 1832, and again in 1833 to 1836. In 1837, he was appointed a commissioner to adjust the claims of the Choctaw Indians. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A Democrat, he then served New Jersey as At-Large (Twenty-Sixth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1839 to 1841. While serving in the United States Congress he was one of five Democratic candidates for the United States Congress to become involved in the Broad Seal War controversy in 1838. He disputed election results and caused the United States House of Representatives to challenge the Whig candidates certified by then-New Jersey Governor William Pennington. Following a lengthy battle, he and the four other Democrats were seated in the place of the Whigs. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-Seventh Congress in 1840. On November 4, 1840, he married for the second time (his first wife Anna had died in 1829) to Maria Matilda Wall and the couple had four children (Peter Dumont Vroom was born 1842, Garrett Dorset Wall Vroom was born in 1843, James Walter Vroom was born in 1846, and Gouverneur Rutgers Vroom was born in 1849). After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1841, he moved to Trenton, New Jersey, to resume his practice of law. He then served as a Delegate to the New Jersey State Constitutional Convention in 1844, was appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1853, but declined and never served in that position, and was then personally appointed by then-President Franklin Pierce to serve in the position of the United States Minister to Prussia from 1853 to 1857. He again resumed his practice of law and was made a Delegate to the peace convention that was held in Washington, D.C., in 1861, in an effort to devise means to prevent an impending war. He lastly served as a reporter for the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1862 to 1872 and as Commissioner of the sinking fund of New Jersey from 1864 to 1872. He passed away in Trenton, New Jersey, on November 18, 1873, at the age of 81, and was buried in the Dumont Burying Ground in Hillsborough, New Jersey.