sentences:  He was one of the organizers of the New York State Bankers' Association, and served as vice president in 1894 and president in 1899.Elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, Brewster was United States Representative for the thirty-first district of New York from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1899.He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic during the Fifty-fifth Congress.