Micah Brooks | |
State: | New York |
District: | 21st |
Term Start: | March 4, 1815 |
Term End: | March 3, 1817 |
Preceded: | Samuel M. Hopkins Peter Buell Porter |
Succeeded: | Benjamin Ellicott John Canfield Spencer |
Office2: | New York State Assembly |
Term Start2: | 1808 |
Term End2: | 1809 |
Birth Date: | 14 May 1775 |
Birth Place: | near Cheshire, Connecticut Colony, British America |
Death Place: | Fillmore, New York, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Nunda Cemetery, Nunda, New York |
Citizenship: | U.S. |
Profession: | Surveyor |
Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | , New York State Infantry |
Serviceyears: | 1812-1814 1828-1830 |
Rank: | Colonel Major-general |
Battles: | War of 1812 |
Micah Brooks (May 14, 1775July 7, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Brooks received his early education from his father. He was a pioneer and one of the earliest surveyors of western New York.
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1806. He was a member from Ontario County of the New York State Assembly in 1808-09. He served as colonel on the frontier and at Fort Erie during the War of 1812. He was a major general of the New York State Infantry from 1828 to 1830.
Brooks was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 14th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817. Afterwards he engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821. He was elected a presidential elector in 1824 and cast his vote for John Quincy Adams.
He was buried at the Nunda Cemetery in Nunda, New York.