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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoFranklin Eli BROOKS
(1860-1916)
BROOKS, Franklin Eli, a
Representative from Colorado; born in Sturbridge, Worcester County,
Mass., November 19, 1860; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Southbridge High School in 1879 and from Brown
University, Providence, R.I., in 1883; taught school for several
years; attended the law school of Boston University in 1887 and
1888; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced practice in
Boston, Mass.; moved to Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colo., in
1891, where he continued the practice of law; delegate to the
Republican State conventions in 1900 and 1907, serving as chairman
the latter year; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Colorado Springs, Colo., but devoted
himself principally to land development, being president of the
Costilla Estates Development Company; appointed a member of the
State board of agriculture and trustee of the State agricultural
college, Fort Collins, Colo., in 1907; trustee of Brown University;
died February 7, 1916, in St. Augustine, Fla.; interment in
Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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