John W. Brown (politician, 1796)

John W. Brown

John W. Brown (born October 11, 1796 in Dundee , Scotland , † September 6, 1875 in Newburgh , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1833 and 1837 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Life

John W. Brown was born in Dundee a few years before the late 18th century. He and his father immigrated to the United States in 1802 and settled in Newburgh. There he attended public schools. Brown studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1818 and then began practicing in Newburgh. In 1820 he was elected justice of the peace. Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the 1832 congressional election , Brown was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Samuel J. Wilkin on March 4, 1833 . After a successful re-election, he left the Congress on March 3, 1837 . Then he worked as a lawyer again. In 1849 he was elected Justice of the New York Supreme Court for the Second Judicial District and re-elected in 1857. He held this position until 1865. Then he resumed his practice as a lawyer. He died on September 6, 1875 in Newburgh and was then buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery .

Web links

• John W. Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John W. Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John W. Brown on The Political Graveyard website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franklin Benjamin Hough: The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 59, 72, 350.
2. ^ The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York