Clifford Cleveland Brooks

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Clifford Cleveland Brooks
Louisiana State Senator for Tensas, Concordia, Madison, and East Carroll parishes
In office
1924–1932
Preceded byGeorge Henry Clinton
Succeeded byDaniel B. Fleming
Andrew L. Sevier
Personal details
Born(1886-09-19)September 19, 1886
planter

Clifford Cleveland Brooks, also known as C. C. Brooks (September 19, 1886 – October 16, 1944),[1] was a Georgia native who served as a Democrat from 1924 to 1932 in the Louisiana State Senate. Brooks represented the delta parishes: Tensas, Madison, East Carroll, and Concordia,[2] a rich farming region along the Mississippi River in eastern Louisiana ranging from Vidalia to Tallulah to Lake Providence. At the time, two state senators served from the four-parish district.

Background

Brooks was born in

U.S. President Grover Cleveland. Brooks graduated in 1908 from the University of Georgia at Athens, where he was active in athletic and fraternal activities. He had planned to study medicine but instead moved west for health reasons and sold real estate in Pauls Valley in Garvin County in southern Oklahoma. Thereafter, he was a cotton broker in Shreveport in far northwestern Louisiana.[3]

Political career

In 1918, Brooks came to Tensas Parish, where two years later, he purchased the Botany Bay Plantation on Lake Bruin near the

Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Williamson retired to private life in 1932, rather than face likely defeat at the hands of the Longites, and his seat passed to Andrew L. Sevier of Tallulah.[5]

Brooks was unseated in his 1932 bid for a third Senate term by the banker Daniel B. Fleming of

conservative planter candidate, Andrew Sevier, in the upper delta. Two seats were at stake; Fleming and Sevier prevailed, with Brooks cast aside for reelection. Emerging pro-Long voters in Brooks' own Tensas Parish even turned to Fleming.[6]

Personal life

Brooks was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In 1915, he married the former Linda Mae Sibley, a native of Bossier Parish, who was residing with her parents in Shreveport. Linda took an active role in civic matters and founded the first Girl Scout troop in St. Joseph. Four years after Brooks' death, Linda married Dr. George Watts Dubuisson, who died in 1952. She continued to operate Botany Bay Plantation after the deaths of both husbands. She died at the since defunct St. Charles Legion Memorial Hospital in Newellton.[1][3]

See also

Related names in Tensas Parish agriculture:

References

  1. ^ a b "No. 51, Robert James Sibley". rcstokes.com. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2012" (PDF). legis.state.la.us. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 4, 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Henry E. Chambers, History of Louisiana, Vol. 2 (Chicago and New York City: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925, p. 71)
  4. dissertation, December 2006, p. 263. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  5. ^ Once Proud Princes, p. 198
  6. ^ Once Proud Princes, pp. 207-209
Preceded by Louisiana State Senator for Concordia, Tensas, Madison, and East Carroll parishes
Clifford Cleveland Brooks
1924–1932 		Succeeded by
Daniel B. Fleming
Andrew L. Sevier
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