Bryant Butler Brooks

Bryant Butler Brooks ( born February 5, 1861 in Bernardston, Massachusetts, † December 8, 1944 in Casper, Wyoming ) was an American politician of the Republican Party and from 1904 to 1911 Governor of the State of Wyoming.

Biography

After attending public schools Brooks finished his education at the Business College in Chicago from 1880 and settled in Big Muddy (Wyoming), where he immediately began his professional and political career. Both his success in stock market transactions as well as its activity within the Republican Party meant that he was elected Members of Parliament ( State Legislature ). In the aftermath Brooks was several times elected a delegate to conventions of the Republican Party and also one of the electors for the presidential election in the United States in 1900, where his party colleague William McKinley was elected U.S. president.

As the successor of Fenimore Chatterton Brooks in 1904 elected governor of Wyoming, to complete the term of office of the deceased on April 28, 1903 Governor DeForest Richards. After the expiration of this term he was elected in 1906 for a second term as governor and sworn in on January 2, 1907. Brooks held this position until January 2, 1911. He was the first governor ( Governor's Mansion ) lived in the newly constructed governor's mansion in the state. After the end of the electoral period Brooks retired from politics.

1939 published his memoirs under the title " Memoirs of Bryant B. Brooks: Cowboy, Trapper, Lumberman, Stockman, Oilman, Banker, and Governor of Wyoming ."

Swell

• Biography at the Wyoming State Archives ( English )