Franklin E. Brooks

Franklin Eli Brooks ( born November 19, 1860 in Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † February 7, 1916 in St. Augustine, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Brooks attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1879, the Southbridge High School. Subsequently, he studied until 1883 at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). In the following years, Brooks worked as a teacher before he studied at the Boston University law in the years 1887 and 1888. After his made ​​in 1888 admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession.

In 1891, Brooks moved to Colorado Springs, where he also practiced law. He became a member of the Republican Party, whose regional party conferences in Colorado, he attended in the years 1900 and 1907, Delegate; In 1907 he was chairman of the Congress. In the congressional elections of 1902, Brooks was elected to the newly created third district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he was able to complete two terms after a re-election in 1904 between March 4, 1903 to March 3, 1907. 1906 waived Brooks on another candidacy.

After the end of his time in Congress Brooks again worked as a lawyer in Colorado Springs. More and more he devoted himself to the development of land. He became president of the Costilla Estates Development Company. He was also a member of the Committee on Agriculture of the State of Colorado and was curator of the State Agricultural College and Brown University. Franklin Brooks died in February 1916, and was buried in Colorado Springs.

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