Joseph Brooks
February 9th, 2010 | Comments Off | Written by admin
Joseph Brooks (November 1, 1812 – April 30, 1877) was a Republican politician in Arkansas after the Civil War. He is mainly remembered for his candidacy for governor in 1872 and the Brooks–Baxter War that erupted over that election in 1874.
Joseph Brooks was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and worked as a ...