Clarence J. Brown

This article is about the politician Clarence J. Brown (1895–1965). For his son of the same name (* 1927) see Bud Brown .

Clarence J. Brown (1961)

Clarence J. Brown (born July 14, 1895 in Blanchester , Clinton County , Ohio , †  August 23, 1965 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1965 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Clarence Brown attended the common schools and from 1913 to 1915, the Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia ), where he studied law. In 1915 and 1916 he worked for the Statistics Department of the Ohio State Government. He then worked in the newspaper business in Blanchester. He edited several newspapers and became president of Brown Publishing Co. He also ran a few larger farms. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

Between 1919 and 1923 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Deputy Governors James M. Cox and Harry L. Davis . Between 1927 and 1933 Brown held the office of Secretary of State of Ohio. In 1934 he unsuccessfully applied for the office of governor. Between 1936 and 1948 he was a delegate to all Republican National Conventions . Since 1944 he was a member of the Republican National Committee .

In the 1938 congressional election , Brown was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Democrat Arthur W. Aleshire on January 3, 1939 . After 13 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 23, 1965 . By 1941, the last of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt , which Brown rejected. He was an isolationist and generally opposed to Roosevelt's policies. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . In addition, the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and domestically the civil rights movement as well as the beginning of the Vietnam War fell during Brown's time as a congressman. From 1947 to 1949 he was chairman of the Committee on Newsprint . After the war he was also in opposition to the new President Harry S. Truman and his politics. He later served on the Rules of Procedure committee , where he defied liberal laws of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson .

Clarence Brown was married to Ethel McKinney, with whom he had at least three children. The son Bud was elected to Congress as his successor in 1965 after his father's death. His son Clancy , Clarence Brown's grandson, became a well-known film actor.

Web links

Commons : Clarence J. Brown  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Clarence J. Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Clarence J. Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ year of birth according to his tombstone; the congress biography indicates the year 1893.