Joseph Brooks (November 1 1812 – April 30 1877) was a Republican politician in Arkansas after the Civil War. He is mainly remembered for losing the 1872 gubernatorial race in Arkansas and then leading a coup d’état now referred to as the Brooks–Baxter War in 1874.
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