BROOKS OVERTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110061-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 61
• Content Type: BIO

Approved For Release 2007/02/28: CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110061-3
BIOGRAPHY
BROOKS, OVERTON, Democrat, of Shreveport, La.; was born in East
Baton Rouge Parish, La., parents, Claude M. Brooks, deceased,
and Mrs. Penelope Overton Brooks; living - four sister and one
brother; educated in the schools of East Baton Rouge Parish;
enlisted in the United States Army in July 1918 and served in the
Sixth Field Artillery, First Regular Army Division, until
September 1, 1919, serving in France, Belgium, and Germany
during this time; graduated from the law school of the Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, La. , on April 10, 1923, at which
time he began practicing law at Shreveport, La. ; became United
States Commissioner on September 1, 1925, and served as such
for 10 years; married Miss Mollie Meriwether on June 1, 1933,
and they have one child member of the Episcopal
Church, thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, Elks, American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Louisiana Farm Bureau
Federation, Shreveport Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar
Association, Ki_%i-anis Club, Forty and Eight Organization, Bienville
Cattlemen's Association, Webster Parish Farm Bureau; president
National Rivers and Harbors Congress; elected to Seventy-fifth
and to the -ten succeeding Congresses.
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Approved For Release 2007/02/28: CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110061-3