George Houston Brown

George Houston Brown (born February 12, 1810 in Lawrenceville , New Jersey , †  August 1, 1865 in Somerville , New Jersey) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Brown attended the public schools in his home country as well as the Lawrenceville Academy . After that he was at Princeton College until 1828 . Between 1828 and 1830 Brown was a teacher at the Lawrenceville Academy . After a subsequent law degree at Yale University and Somerville and his 1835 admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Somerville in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Whig Party . Between 1842 and 1845 he was a member of the State Council of New Jersey. In 1844 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the state constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Brown was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded John Van Dyke on March 4, 1851 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1852, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1853 . These were determined by the events leading up to the civil war . At that time it was mostly about the question of slavery .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, George Brown initially practiced as a lawyer again. From 1861 to 1865 he was a judge on the New Jersey Supreme Court . He died on August 1, 1865 in Somerville, where he was also buried.

Web links

• George Houston Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Houston Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)