Edwin B. Brooks

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Edwin Bruce Brooks (September 20, 1868 – September 18, 1933) was a Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois. He served in the U.S. House for Illinois’s 23rd district from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1923. Born in Newton, Illinois, he graduated from Valparaiso University in 1892. Brooks worked as a public school superintendent in several towns (Newman, Newton, Greenville, and Paris) between 1894 and 1912. He then ran a bank in Newton from 1912 to 1914 and served as Jasper County’s superintendent of schools from 1914 to 1918. After leaving Congress following an unsuccessful 1922 reelection bid, he became Illinois’s superintendent of charities (1924–1930) and later an assistant attorney general (1930–1932). Brooks died in Newton in 1933 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery. He was the cousin of Edmund H. Hinshaw.