Francis Beattie Brewer (October 8, 1820 – July 29, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Brewer attended the Barnet, Vermont public schools, Newbury (Vermont) Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1843 and from the medical department of the same institution in 1846. He practiced medicine in Barnet, Vermont, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Titusville, Pennsylvania, from 1849 to 1861. He was a pioneer oil operator and lumberman in Titusville.
He moved to Westfield, New York, in 1861 and engaged in banking, manufacturing, and agricultural pursuits. He was a state military agent with the rank of major during the Civil War. He served as member of the board of supervisors of Chautauqua County, New York from 1868 to 1879. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872 and as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1873 and 1874. He was the government director of the Union Pacific Railroad for four years under Presidents Grant and Hayes. He was appointed manager of the state insane asylum, Buffalo, New York, in 1881.
Brewer was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1884. He resumed the practice of medicine. He died in Westfield, New York, July 29, 1892, and was interred in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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| Preceded by Henry Van Aernam |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 33rd congressional district 1883–1885 |
Succeeded by John B. Weber |