Bud Brown

Bud Brown (1981)

Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr. (born June 18, 1927 in Columbus , Ohio ) is a former American politician . Between 1965 and 1983 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bud Brown is the son of Congressman Clarence J. Brown (1895-1965). He attended Western High School in Washington, DC until 1944 and served in the US Navy between 1944 and 1946 during World War II , which he also served between 1950 and 1953 during the Korean War . After the Second World War he continued his own training. He studied at Duke University in North Carolina by 1947 and then at Harvard Business School in Cambridge until 1949 . He then began a long career in the newspaper and media industry. Between 1949 and 1965 he was employed by the Brown Publishing Co .; from 1965 to 1976 he was president and then until 2002 chairman of the board of this company. From 1953 to 1959 he was a co-owner of the Franklin Chronicle newspaper . He also ran a farm and was the manager of a radio station in Urbana .

Politically, Brown, like his father, was a member of the Republican Party . In 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1984 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions . After the death of his father, who died as a congressman, he was elected in the due by-election for the seventh seat of Ohio as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1965. After eight re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1983 . During this time, the Vietnam War , the Watergate affair and the end of the civil rights movement took place .

In 1982 Bud Brown renounced another congressional candidacy. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the governor of Ohio. Between 1983 and 1988 he was Deputy and temporarily acting Secretary of Commerce of the United States under President Ronald Reagan . He served on the board of directors of Overseas Private Investment Corporation in 1988 and 1989 . He then served as President and Executive Director of the United States Capitol Historical Society between 1992 and 1999 . His son is the film actor Clancy Brown .

Web links

Commons : Bud Brown  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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