Micah Brooks

Micah Brooks

Micah Brooks (born May 14, 1775 in Brooksvale , Colony of Connecticut , † July 7, 1857 in Fillmore , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Micah Brooks was born in New Haven County about a month after the War of Independence began . He received his education and upbringing from his father. He was a pioneer and one of the first land surveyors in western New York. In 1806 he worked as a justice of the peace. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1808 and 1809 . During the British-American War he served as Colonel in Fort Erie on the border with Canada between 1812 and 1814 .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1814 for the 14th Congress Brooks was in the 21st congressional district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeds on March 4, 1815 Samuel M. Hopkins and Nathaniel W. Howell took , who previously together represented the 21st district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1817 Congress of.

After his time at the Congress, he worked in agriculture. In 1821 he took part in the Constituent Assembly as a delegate from Ontario County . In the presidential election of 1824 he was elector for John Quincy Adams . Between 1828 and 1830 he served as a major general in the New York State Infantry . He died in Fillmore, Allegany County , about four years before the civil war broke out . His body was interred in Oakwood Cemetery in Nunda , Livingston County .

literature

• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 57, 70, 261 and 326.

Web links

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

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