Milton Brown (politician)

Milton Brown (born February 28, 1804 in Lebanon , Ohio , †  May 15, 1883 in Jackson , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1841 and 1847 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Milton Brown was born in Ohio and later moved to Nashville . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in his new profession in Paris (Tennessee). He later moved to Jackson, where he served as a law firm judge for western Tennessee from 1835 to 1841.

Politically, Brown became a member of the Whig Party, which was founded in 1835 . In the congressional election of 1840 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John Wesley Crockett on March 4, 1841 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1847 . Since 1843 he represented there as the successor of Cave Johnson the eleventh district of his state, after his previous constituency had been dissolved in 1842. In the early years of his time as a congressman until 1845, he saw his party's heated argument with President John Tyler . In addition, a possible annexation of the Republic of Texas , which has been independent of Mexico since 1836, was discussed. Its execution led to the Mexican-American War in March 1845 , which shaped Milton Brown's last term in Congress.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Brown practiced law again. He became a co-founder of Southwestern Baptist University and Lambuth College . Brown also worked in the railroad business. Between 1854 and 1856 he was president of the Mississippi Central & Tennessee Railroad Co .; then he held the same position between 1856 and 1871 with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad . Milton Brown died in Jackson on May 15, 1883.

Web links

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

• Milton Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)