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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaBROOKS, Overton
(1897—1961)
BROOKS, Overton, (nephew of John Holmes Overton), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, La., December 21, 1897; attended the public schools; during the First World War served overseas as an enlisted man in the Sixth Field Artillery, First Division, Regular Army, in 1918 and 1919; was graduated from the law department of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Shreveport, La.; served as United States Commissioner 1925-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in Bethesda, Md., September 16, 1961; chairman, Committee on Science and Astronautics (Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses); interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
United States. 87th Cong., 1st sess., 1961. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Overton Brooks, late a Representative from Louisiana
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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