Lathrop Brown

Lathrop Brown (born February 26, 1883 in New York City , † November 28, 1959 in Fort Myers , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lathrop Brown graduated from Groton School in Massachusetts in 1900 and from Harvard University in 1903 . Then he went into real estate business. He served in Squadron A of the New York National Guard for five years . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the 1912 congressional elections , Brown was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded Martin W. Littleton on March 4, 1913 . He suffered in 1914 during his re-election bid a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1915 Congress of. The contestation of the election of Frederick C. Hicks was unsuccessful. He then worked from March 1917 to October 1918 as a Special Assistant to the US Secretary of the Interior and during the First World War as a private in the Tank Corps. The following year he served as a joint secretary at the National Industrial Conference convened by President Wilson . He participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1924 and 1936 . Between 1928 and 1932 he studied monetary theory at the Graduate School of Harvard University . Brown moved to California in 1946 and then lived on a cattle ranch. The following year he was elected to the Sheriff 's Posse in Monterey County . In 1954 and 1955 he was a member of the committee that oversaw the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard University. He died on November 28, 1959 in Fort Myers. His body was cremated and the ashes in the Abbey of the Light of the Memorial Park Manasota in Sarasota buried (Florida).

His home in Nissequogue , better known as the Land of Clover , was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

Web links

Lathrop Brown in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Lathrop Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.

personal data
SURNAME	Brown, Lathrop
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1959
Place of death	Fort Myers , Florida

[nris-1] National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.