Micah Brooks (14 May 1775 – 7 July 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 21) from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817, succeeding Samuel M. Hopkins and Nathaniel W. Howell and preceding Benjamin Ellicott and John C. Spencer.
Biography[]
Micah Brooks was born in Brooksvale, Connecticut in 1775, and he became a pioneer and one of the earliest surveyors of western New York. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1806 and served in the State Assembly from 1808 to 1809, as a colonel on the frontier during the War of 1812, as a Major-General in the State Infantry from 1828 to 1830, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817, and as a John Quincy Adams presidential elector in 1824.