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Thomas Overton Brooks

Thomas Overton Brooks
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Chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee
In office
January 3, 1959 – September 16, 1961
Speaker Sam Rayburn
Preceded by Committee established
Succeeded by George P. Miller
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 4th district
In office
January 3, 1937 – September 16, 1961
Preceded by John N. Sandlin
Succeeded by Joe Waggonner
Personal details
Born (1897-12-21)December 21, 1897
Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge Parish
Louisiana, USA
Died September 16, 1961(1961-09-16) (aged 63)
Bethesda, Maryland
Resting place Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport, Louisiana
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Mary Fontaine "Mollie" Meriwether Brooks (married 1932-1961, his death)
Relations

John H. Overton (uncle)

Walter Hampden Overton (great-grandfather)
Children Laura Anne Brooks
Parents Claude M. and Penelope Overton Brooks
Residence Shreveport, Louisiana
Alma mater Louisiana State University Law Center
Occupation Attorney
Religion Episcopalian
Military service
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service World War I

John H. Overton (uncle)

Thomas Overton Brooks (December 21, 1897 – September 16, 1961) was a Democratic U.S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwestern Louisiana, having served for a quarter century beginning on January 3, 1937.

Of a prominent family, Brooks was a nephew of U.S. Senator John Holmes Overton and a great-grandson of Walter Hampden Overton. At the time of his death, he was chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee.

Brooks was born in Baton Rouge to Claude M. Brooks and the former Penelope Overton. He graduated from public schools. Brooks served overseas during World War I as an enlisted man in the Sixth Field Artillery, First Division, Regular Army, 1918–1919.

After the war, he obtained a degree in 1923 from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. He was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Shreveport in Caddo Parish in the northwestern corner of his state.

On June 1, 1932, Brooks married the former Mary Fontaine "Mollie" Meriwether (1904-1995), a daughter of Minor Meriwether (1862-1949), a planter and banker originally from Hernando, Mississippi, and the former Anne Finley McNutt (1865-1943), both of whom died in Shreveport. Overton and Mollie Brooks had one child, Laura Anne Brooks (1936-1994), who like her mother died in Houston, Texas.


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