David Brooks

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Former United States Representative

David Brooks was an officer in the Continental Army in the American Revolution and a United States representative from New York. Brooks was born in Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania and attended the public schools there. In 1776, he... Wikipedia

Born: 1756, Philadelphia, PA

Died: August 30, 1838 (age 82 years), Poughkeepsie, NY

Party: Federalist Party

Books: An Accurate System of Surveying: In which is Contained, I. Decimal Fractions, in a Plain, Concise, and Easy Manner. II. The Extraction of the Square-root. III. Plane Trigonometry, Rectangular and Oblique. IV. An Exact Method to Cast Up the Contents of Lands. V. Field Surveying. : The Whole Being Performed Without the Use of Scale and Compasses, Or a Table of Logarithms. In which is Given, Some Account of the Variation of the Needle, and the Causes of Its Attraction

Previous offices: Representative, NY 5th District (1797–1799), New York State Representative (1794–1796), and New York State Representative (1787–1788)

Children: James G. Brooks