Charles Wayland Brooks (March 8, 1897 – January 14, 1957) was a RepublicanU.S. Senator from Illinois from 1940 to 1949.[1] March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... GOP redirects here. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
He was born in West Bureau, Illinois and during World War I Brooks served as a first lieutenant in the United States Marines from 1917 to 1919; while in combat he was wounded several times. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg... First Lieutenant is a military rank. ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ...
Charles Brooks ran for Governor of Illinois in 1936 but was defeated by incumbent DemocratHenry Horner. In 1940 Brooks was elected to fill the senate vacancy caused by the death of J. Hamilton Lewis. Brooks was reelected in 1942 and ran for reelction in 1948 but was defeated by DemocratPaul Douglas. He died in Chicago, Illinois. The Governor of Illinois is the chief executive of the State of Illinois and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ... Henry Horner (November 30, 1879 – October 6, 1940) was a Democrat governor of Illinois, serving from 1933 to 1940. ... James Hamilton Lewis (May 18, 1863 - April 9, 1939) was the first Senator to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ... Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 - September 24, 1976) was a University of Chicago economist and Democratic United States Senator, 1949–1967, representing the State of Illinois. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
Brooks was raised in a well-off Fort Worth family and attended I.M. Terrell High School, where he played football.
After a last meal consisting of a T-bone steak, french fries, catsup, Worcestershire sauce, biscuits, peach cobbler and ice tea, he was rolled into the death chamber at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Brooks had converted to Islam while in prison and as such said a prayer to Allah.
Brooks was deeply loved by his parishioners and is praised for his compassion, sincerity, and intellectual acumen as a pastor.
Regardless, Brooks says in his preface that his goal is the creation of the finest translation of the work, the most true to the poetic qualities of the original German, and majority of scholarship suggests that he accomplished his goal.
Brooks and his works, however, remain largely unexamined, his translations having only one book length study dedicated solely to them, Camillo von Klenze’s Charles Timothy Brooks: Translator from the German and the Genteel Tradition, and his sermons and poetry are generally dismissed as regional and uninspired, even in scholarship that praise his translations.
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