Micah Brooks
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Micah Brooks
| image = Micah Brooks (New York).jpg
| 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 = {{Birth date|1775|05|14}}
| birth_place = near Cheshire, Connecticut Colony, British America
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1857|07|07|1775|05|14|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Fillmore, New York, U.S.
| resting_place = Nunda Cemetery, Nunda, New York
| citizenship = U.S.
| spouse =
| children =
| profession = Surveyor
| party = Democratic-Republican
| alma_mater =
|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}
| branch = {{flag|United States Army}}
{{flag|New York}}, New York State Infantry
| serviceyears = 1812-1814
1828-1830
| rank = Colonel
Major-general
| unit =
| commands =
| battles = War of 1812
| awards =
}}
Micah Brooks (May 14, 1775{{spnd}}July 7, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Life
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.
References
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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA70 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 57, 70, 261 and 326; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
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| state=New York
| district= 21
| before= Samuel M. Hopkins,
Nathaniel W. Howell
| after= Benjamin Ellicott,
John C. Spencer
| years= 1815–1817
with Peter B. Porter 1815–16 and Archibald S. Clarke 1816–17}}
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Category:1824 United States presidential electors
Category:People from Cheshire, Connecticut
Category:People from Ontario County, New York
Category:Members of the New York State Assembly
Category:United States Army generals
Category:People from Nunda, New York
Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives