Joshua Twing Brooks (February 27, 1884 – February 7, 1956) was a
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Biography
Brooks was born in
Edgeworth
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(now
Sewickley),
Pennsylvania
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. He graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School
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of
Yale University
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in 1908.
He was engaged in the steel industry after graduation. During the
First World War
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, Brooks served in the Quartermaster Division in
Washington, D.C.
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, purchasing steel products for the Army. After the war he returned to Sewickley, and continued in the steel industry. He later established his own business as a distributor of railway supplies and steel products.
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Brooks was elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936. After his time in Congress, he served as a member of the
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
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at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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, from 1937 to 1939.
He served as assistant director of aviation for
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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, from 1940 to 1948, and as manager of
Allegheny County Airport
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from 1949 to 1956. He died in Sewickley, aged 71, and is buried in Sewickley Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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1884 births
1956 deaths
People from Edgeworth, Pennsylvania
People from Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
20th-century American politicians