Peter Dumont Vroom (12 December 1791-18 November 1873) was the Democratic Governor of New Jersey from 6 November 1829 to 26 October 1832 (succeeding Isaac Halstead Williamson and preceding Samuel L. Southard) and from 25 October 1833 to 28 October 1836 (succeeding Elias P. Seeley and preceding Philemon Dickerson), and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NJ at-large) from 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1841 (interrupting Thomas Jones Yorke's terms).
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Peter Dumont Vroom was born in Hillsborough Township, Somerset County, New Jersey in 1791. He became a lawyer in 1813 and served in the General Assembly from 1826 to 1829, as Governor from 1829 to 1832 and from 1833 to 1836, and in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1841. From 1853 to 1857, he served as Minister to Prussia, and he died in 1873.