Charles Harrison Brown

Charles Harrison Brown (born October 22, 1920 in Coweta , Wagoner County , Oklahoma , †  June 10, 2003 in Henderson , Nevada ) was an American politician . Between 1957 and 1961 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Brown attended public schools in Humansville and Republic, Missouri, and then high school in Springfield . He later graduated from Drury College in Springfield and, until 1939, George Washington University in the federal capital Washington . Since 1937 he worked in the radio business. In 1937 and 1938 he was the program director of a station in Springfield, where he had previously worked as a speaker at the age of 16. In 1940 he served on the Missouri Conservation Commission for radio public relations. In 1943 and 1945 he worked for an advertising agency in St. Louis . Brown was also the founder and director of Brown Radio-TV Productions, Inc. in Springfield, which was how he got into the television business. He was also a partner in the Brown Brothers Advertising Agency , which had offices in Nashville , St. Louis and Springfield.

Politically, Brown was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1956 and 1964 he was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions and also to the regional Democratic party conventions in Missouri. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh constituency of his state, where he succeeded Dewey Jackson Short on January 3, 1957 , whom he had defeated in the election. After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1961 . These were determined by the events of the Cold War and the civil rights movement .

In 1960 Brown was defeated by Republican Durward Gorham Hall . To date he is the last Democrat to represent the Seventh District of Missouri in Congress; since 1960 only Republicans have been elected to the US House of Representatives there. After leaving Congress, Brown worked as a public relations consultant in Washington and Los Angeles . From 1973 to 1979 he also served as senior vice president on the board of an oil refinery in Los Angeles. Charles Brown died in Henderson on June 10, 2003.

Web links

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