Francis B. Brewer

Francis Beattie Brewer ( born October 8, 1820 Keene, New Hampshire; † July 29, 1892 in Westfield, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Brewer attended the public schools in Barnet and the Newberry Seminary, both in Vermont. He also graduated from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden and then in 1843, Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent study of medicine, also at Dartmouth College, and his 1846 was admitted as a doctor, he began to practice in this profession, which he practiced in various cities in Vermont, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, 1849-1861. In Titusville (Pennsylvania ), he went into the oil and timber business. In 1861 he moved to Westfield in New York, where he worked in the banking industry, crafts and agriculture. During the Civil War he was State Military Agent in the rank of Major.

After the war, Brewer hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1868 and 1879 he was a member of the District Council in Chautauqua County; in June 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in part, was nominated to the President Ulysses S. Grant for re-election. In the years 1873 and 1874 Brewer sat in the New York State Assembly. For four years he was director of the Federal Government for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1881 he took over the management of the state mental hospital in Buffalo.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Brewer was the 33rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Van Aernam on March 4, 1883. Since he resigned in 1884 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Brewer worked as a doctor again. He died on 29 July 1892 in Westfield.