Congressman Jack Brooks represented the Beaumont region for 42 years, a period that spanned ten Presidential administrations from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton. He was a key legislative decision maker during the Cold War, the Space Race, the Watergate Scandal, the Iran-Contra Scandal, and ended with the 1994 midterm elections and rise of the New Right. Project staff have been tasked with selecting materials from the Jack Brooks papers that illustrate his incredible career. Those materials will be digitized and made available through a curated online repository.
