John Y. Brown senior

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John Young Brown (born February 1, 1900 in Geigers Lake , Union County , Kentucky , †  June 16, 1985 in Louisville , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Brown attended public schools in his home country and then Sturgis high school . In 1921 he graduated from Center College in Danville . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and his admission as a lawyer in 1926, he began to work in Lexington in this profession. He also worked in agriculture.

Politically, Brown was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1930 to 1932 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives ; In 1932 he was president of this chamber. In the 1932 congressional election he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Kentucky . There he took over from Fred M. Vinson on March 4, 1933 . Since he was no longer nominated by his party for the elections of 1934, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1935 . During this time, the Prohibition Act from 1919 was repealed by the 21st amendment to the constitution . In addition, the new regulation came into force during this period, according to which the legislative periods of the Congress begin on January 3rd after the election.

After he left the US House of Representatives, Brown continued his legal practice. He also remained politically active. In 1939 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the Kentucky gubernatorial election . In 1936 and 1948 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions , at which Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and later Harry S. Truman were each nominated for a further term. Between 1936 and 1966 Brown ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate or for the nomination of his party for this body. In the 1950s and 1960s, Brown was a member of the state parliament on several occasions. There he was considered one of the most effective MPs. He supported the introduction of VAT and the implementation of the Civil Rights Act.

John Brown was married to Dorothy Inman Brown. The couple had five children, including son John , who was governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983. He died on June 16, 1985 in a hospital in Louisville from the effects of a car accident that he had suffered in December 1984; since then he had been paralyzed from the waist down.

Web links

  • John Y. Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times Obituary: John Y. Brown Sr., 85; Father of Ex-Governor (June 17, 1985)
personal data
SURNAME Brown, John Y. senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, John Young senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Geigers Lake , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1985
Place of death Louisville , Kentucky