David Brooks (politician)

David Brooks (born 1756 in Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , † August 30, 1838 in Poughkeepsie , New York ) was an American officer , lawyer and politician . Between 1797 and 1797 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Brooks grew up during the British colonial era. He attended public schools. After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War , he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1776 as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp . Brooks was captured at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776 and exchanged in January 1780, after which he gave his parolee . So he could no longer take part in the fight and was appointed Assistant Clothier General . He studied law , got his license, and then began to practice. After the war, he settled in New York County . He served in the New York State Assembly in 1787 and 1788 . Then he moved to Dutchess County . He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1794 and 1796 and again in 1810. Between 1795 and 1807 he was a judge in Dutchess County.

Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party . In the congressional elections of 1796 Brooks was elected in the fifth constituency of New York in the US House of Representatives, which was still in Philadelphia at that time, where he succeeded Theodorus Bailey on March 4, 1797 . In 1798 he suffered a defeat in his re-election and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1799 . Then he ran unsuccessfully for a congress seat in 1800 .

Brooks was appointed commissioner to negotiate a contract with the Seneca . He worked from June 5, 1807 to January 25, 1809, then from February 9, 1810 to February 14, 1811 and lastly from February 23, 1813 to February 13, 1815 as a clerk in Dutchess County. Then he was an officer in the United States Customs Service and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati . Brooks died in Poughkeepsie on August 30, 1838 and was buried in the Old Rural Cemetery .

Web links

• David Brooks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Brooks in the database of Find a Grave (English)