Brooks was born in
Edgeworth (now
Sewickley),
Pennsylvania. He graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University in 1908. He was engaged in the steel industry after graduation. During the
First World War, Brooks served in the Quartermaster Division in
Washington, D.C., 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. by Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 with Rep. Brooks in standing fourth from the left 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 at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1937 to 1939. He served as assistant director of aviation for
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1948, and as manager of
Allegheny County Airport from 1949 to 1956. He died in Sewickley, aged 71, and is buried in Sewickley Cemetery. ==Sources==