Garry E. Brown

Garry E. Brown (1977)

Garry Eldridge Brown (born August 12, 1923 in Schoolcraft , Kalamazoo County , Michigan , †  August 27, 1998 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1967 and 1979 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Garry Brown grew up on his family's dairy farm in Kalamazoo County. During the Second World War he served as a first lieutenant in an infantry unit in the US Army . He was also used in Japan towards the end of the war . After studying law at George Washington University and being admitted to the bar in 1954, he began working in his new profession in Kalamazoo . Between 1957 and 1962 he was the federal commissioner for the federal judicial district in western Michigan.

Politically, Brown was a member of the Republican Party . In 1961 and 1962 he was a member of a commission to revise the Michigan constitution. From 1962 and 1966 he sat in the State Senate , where he was parliamentary group leader of the Republican Senators. In the 1966 congressional election , Brown was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded Paul H. Todd of the Democratic Party on January 3, 1967 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1979 . During this time, among other things, the Vietnam War ended . In 1974, political America was shaken by the Watergate affair . In 1967 the 25th amendment was passed and the 26th amendment in 1971 .

In the 1978 election, Garry Brown was defeated by the Democrat Howard Wolpe . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he stayed in Washington and worked there as a lawyer until his death on August 27, 1998. He was married to Deanna Delong (1938-2004), with whom he had four daughters.

Web links

• Garry E. Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Garry E. Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)