served on the Territorial Council from 1867 to 1869, including a stint as council president in 1868. He also served as district attorney for Yankton County from 1867-68. In 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Dakota Territory. Brookings served in this capacity through 1873. Between 1883 and 1885 he worked as a member of South Dakota's constitutional convention. On July 3, 1871 Brookings County was formally organized and named after him. The city of Brookings, South Dakota was also named for him, though he only ever visited the town twice. In 1871 Brookings helped organize the Dakota Southern Railroad, and spent the next ten years serving as an executive for the railroads that would eventually become part of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. Brookings was among the first to ride a locomotive into Dakota Territory when the first Dakota Southern train entered the region on October 1, 1872. Later life and death In January 1885, Brookings bought and became editor of the Sioux Falls Leader newspaper (which later merged with the Sioux Falls Argus and became known as the Argus Leader). Brookings also served as president of the Minnehaha Trust Company, Director of the Sioux Falls National Bank, National Realty Company, and Safe Deposit Company. Brookings died riding a streetcar in Boston, Massachusetts on June 13, 1905 while on a return trip from visiting his hometown in Woolwich, Maine. He is buried in Yankton, South Dakota. References 1830 births 1905 deaths 19th-century American judges 19th-century American politicians Acting Governors of Dakota Territory Bowdoin College alumni Governors of Dakota Territory Justices of the Dakota Territorial Supreme Court Members of the Dakota Territorial Legislature People from Anson, Maine People from Litchfield, Maine People from Wiscasset, Maine People from Woolwich, Maine Politicians from Sioux Falls, South Dakota South Dakota lawyers