Mary Brooks
| Mary Brooks | |
|---|---|
| 31st Director of the United States Mint | |
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In office 1969–1977 |
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| Preceded by | Eva Adams |
| Succeeded by | Stella Hackel Sims |
| Idaho State Senator | |
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In office 1963–1969 |
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| Succeeded by | son John Peavey |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 1, 1907 Colby, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | February 11, 2002 (aged 94) Twin Falls, Idaho, U.S. |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Arthur J. Peavey, Jr. (widowed 1941) Charles W. Brooks (widowed 1957) |
| Children |
John Peavey (b. 1933) Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Eccles (1936–2004) |
| Parents |
John W. Thomas Florence Johnson |
| Alma mater |
University of Idaho, B.A. 1929 Mills College, A.A. 1927 |
Mary Elizabeth Thomas Peavey Brooks (November 1, 1907 – February 11, 2002) directed the United States Mint from September 1969 to February 1977.
Mary Elizabeth Thomas was born to John W. Thomas and Florence (Johnson) Thomas on November 1, 1907, in Colby, Kansas. Her parents moved to Gooding, Idaho, in early 1909 when she was 14 months of age. Her father was a rancher and banker; he was appointed a U.S. Senator from Idaho twice (following the deaths of Frank R. Gooding in 1928 and William Borah in 1940).
An only child, Thomas graduated from Gooding High School in 1925, and attended Mills College in Oakland, California, then a two-year women's school. She transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1927, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and received her bachelor’s degree in economics in 1929.
She met her first husband, Arthur Jacob "Art" Peavey, Jr. of Twin Falls, while they were students at the university in Moscow. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity (across the street from KKG) and also graduated in 1929. He drowned in a boating accident on the Snake River in 1941 and wasn't found for ten days, which left her a widow in her early thirties with two young children. A short time later her mother died, so she moved her family to Washington, D.C., where her father was serving in the U.S. Senate. Her second husband, C. Wayland "Curly" Brooks, was a U.S. Senator from Illinois. They were married in May 1946 for eleven years, until his death from a massive heart attack in 1957. After he left the Senate in January 1949, they had lived in the Chicago area.
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