Foster V. Brown

Foster V. Brown

Foster Vincent Brown (born December 24, 1852 in Sparta , White County , Tennessee , †  March 26, 1937 in Chattanooga , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Foster Brown was the father of Congressman Joseph Edgar Brown (1880-1939). He attended his home public schools and Burritt College in Spencer . After studying law at Cumberland University in Lebanon and being admitted to the bar in 1873, he began to work in his new profession from 1874 in Jasper . Politically, Brown was a member of the Republican Party . In 1884, 1896, 1900 and 1916 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions . From 1886 to 1894 he served as the district attorney in the fourth judicial district of Tennessee. In 1890 he moved to Chattanooga where he worked as a lawyer.

In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Henry C. Snodgrass on March 4, 1895 . Since he refused to run again in 1896, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1897 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Brown returned to work as a lawyer. Between 1910 and 1912 he was Attorney General of Puerto Rico . He then continued his legal practice in Chattanooga; he died there on March 26, 1937.

Web links

• Foster V. Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Foster V. Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)