David Brooks (politician)

David Brooks ( * 1756 in Philadelphia, 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Brooks grew up during the British colonial period. He attended public schools. After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he undertook in 1776 in the Continental Army as a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp. Brooks was taken prisoner at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776 and replaced in January 1780 after he gave his word of honor ( Parolee ). Thus, he could no longer participate in the struggle, he was appointed Assistant Clothier General. He studied law, was admitted and then started practicing. After the war he settled in New York County. He sat in the years 1787 and 1788 in the New York State Assembly. Then he moved to Dutchess County. He sat 1794-1796 and again in 1810 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1795 and 1807, he was a judge in Dutchess County.

Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1796 Brooks was selected in the fifth electoral district of New York at the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Theodorus Bailey on March 4, 1797. In 1798 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1799 from the Congress of. Then he ran also in 1800 unsuccessfully for a congress seat.

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