Elias Brown

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Elias Brown (born May 9, 1793 near Baltimore , Maryland , †  July 7, 1857 there ) was an American politician . Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Elias Brown attended public schools in his home country and then embarked on a political career. First he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1820, he was one of the electors for President James Monroe's re-election . In 1828 he was one of the electors for President John Quincy Adams , who lost to Andrew Jackson in those elections . Around the same time, Brown must have converted to Jackson and his then newly formed Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1828 Brown was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1829. Until March 3, 1831 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . After President Jackson took office in 1829, there was heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Brown continued his political career at the state level. He served in the Maryland House of Representatives in 1834 and 1835 ; from 1836 to 1838 he was a member of the State Senate . During this time he must have changed his party affiliation again, because in the presidential election of 1836 he was an elector for William Henry Harrison , who ran for the Whig Party . That same year, Brown was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Maryland Constitution. After that, he no longer appeared politically. He died near Baltimore on July 7, 1857.

Web links

  • Elias Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH near Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1857
Place of death near Baltimore , Maryland