Bryant+B.+Brooks


 * Bryant B. Brooks **


 * Republican • Casper**
 * Governor 1905-1911**

Bryant B. Brooks was born in Bernardston, Massachusetts on February 5, 1861. He was educated in public schools and finished his education at a business college in Chicago. Brooks relocated to Big Muddy, Wyoming in 1880 where he would engage in stock raising. In time, he became a successful stockman and was active in politics and several civic organizations. He was elected to fill out the unexpired term of Governor DeForest Richards in 1904 and was re-elected in 1906. Afterwards, he became involved in banking and oil. Bryant B. Brooks died on December 8, 1944 in Casper, Wyoming.

He married Mary Willard on March 11, 1886 in Alexandria, Nebraska. They had four girls and one boy (Jeanie, Abby, Lena, Melissa, and Silas).


 * [[file:Gov. Brooks inaugural speech 1905.pdf|Inaugural speech 1905]]**
 * [[file:Gov Brook inaugural program 1905.pdf|Inaugural program 1905]]**
 * [[file:1905 State of the State Address.pdf|Message to the Legislature, 1905]]**
 * Message to the Legislature, 1907**
 * Message to the Legislature, 1909**

**The [|Bryant B. Brooks Collection]** The records from Governor Brooks' term in office include:
 * __Dry Farming__
 * Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress
 * Correspondence
 * Bulletins
 * __General Correspondence__
 * Correspondence
 * Conventions and Expeditions
 * Senator Francis E. Warren
 * Congressman Frank W. Mondell
 * Hanna Mine Disaster
 * __Reports__
 * State Examiner
 * Mine Inspector
 * Geologist Report
 * Department Reports
 * __Pardons__
 * Petitions
 * Board of Pardons
 * Lists of Pardons
 * Lists of Juvenile Delinquents at Golden, Colorado
 * __Legislative Affairs__
 * Governor's Messages
 * Wyoming Laws on Coal Mines
 * Cattle Scab Laws Petition
 * Reapportionment

Additional Resources

 * [|"Happy Birthday Governor B.B. Brooks!"], Wyoming Postscripts, Wyoming State Archives, February 5, 2015. (accessed June 2015)
 * Brooks, Bryant B. //Memoirs of Bryant B. Brooks: Cowboy, Trapper, Lumberman, Stockman, Oilman, Banker, and Governor of Wyoming.// Glendale, Calif: Priv. Print. in a Ltd. edition by the Arthur H. Clark Co, 1939. Print.