Horace Seely-Brown

Horace Seely-Brown

Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. (born May 12, 1908 in Kensington , Montgomery County , Maryland , † April 9, 1982 in Boca Raton , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1963 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut three times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Horace Seely-Brown attended Hoosac School in Hoosick ( New York ) and then until 1929 Hamilton College in Clinton . He then studied for a year until 1930 at Yale University . Seely-Brown worked as a teacher between 1930 and 1934. In 1934 he moved to Pomfret , Connecticut, where he also worked as a teacher until 1942.

Seely-Brown was a member of the Republican Party . In 1938, 1940 and 1942 he took part as a delegate at their regional party conventions in Connecticut. During the Second World War he was from 1943 to January 1946 an Air Operating Officer on an aircraft carrier. After the war he also dealt with agriculture.

In 1946, Seely-Brown was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second District of Connecticut . There he succeeded Chase G. Woodhouse on January 3, 1947 , whom he had defeated in the election. In the following elections, however, he was defeated by her. So he could initially only spend one term in Congress until January 3, 1949 . In 1950, however, he managed to regain his seat after another election campaign against Chase Woodhouse. After three re-elections, he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress between January 3, 1951 and January 3, 1959. In the elections of 1958 he lost to the Democrat Chester B. Bowles , but he was able to oust him two years later from this office. Seely-Brown was last in Congress between January 3, 1961 and January 3, 1963.

In 1962 he renounced another candidacy. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for election to the US Senate . Then Seely-Brown turned back to agriculture. He died in Boca Raton in April 1982 .

Web links

• Horace Seely-Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Horace Seely-Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horace Seely-Brown Jr. . Official Congressional Directory (1962).