James Brooks (politician)

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James Brooks

James Brooks (born November 10, 1810 in Portland , Maine , † April 30, 1873 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1849 and 1853, then between 1863 and 1866 and between 1867 and 1873 .

Career

James Brooks was born in Portland about a year and a half before the outbreak of the British-American War . He attended public schools and the Academy in Monmouth . He then taught at a school in Lewiston at the age of 16 . In 1831 he graduated from Waterville College in Maine. He studied law and published the Portland Advertiser , in 1832 he was its correspondent in Washington. Brooks sat in the Maine House of Representatives in 1835 .

In 1836 he ran unsuccessfully for a congress seat. He then moved to New York City that same year , where he founded the New York Daily Express , of which he was editor-in-chief for the rest of his life. In 1847 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

In the congressional elections of 1848 he was elected as Whig in the sixth constituency of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Horace Greeley on March 4, 1849 . After a successful re-election he suffered in 1852 a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1853 Congress of. Then he worked again as an editor.

Brooks ran for a Democrat in 1862 in the eighth electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he succeeded Isaac C. Delaplaine on March 4, 1863 . Brooks was re-elected two years later , but William E. Dodge challenged his re-election because of a formal error in the registration, so that he left Congress after April 7, 1866. Brooks then ran again for the same seat in the following congressional elections . He was elected to the 40th Congress and re-elected to the two subsequent congresses. In 1872 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the sixth district of New York. Brooks succeeded Samuel S. Cox on March 4, 1873 . However, he died on April 30, 1873 in Washington DC and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn . As a congressman, he took part in the New York Constituent Assembly in 1867 . In October of that year he was appointed Government Director of the Union Pacific Railroad . In this context he received on February 27, 1873 the US House of Representatives a reprimand for attempted bribery ( Crédit Mobilier scandal ).

Web links

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