George Houston Brown (February 12, 1810 – August 1, 1865) was an American
Whig Party politician, who represented in the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1851 to 1853.
Biography
Brown was born in
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Lawrenceville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. , on February 12, 1810. He attended the common schools and
Lawrenceville Academy and graduated from
Princeton College
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...
in 1828. He was a teacher in Lawrenceville Academy from 1828 to 1830. He studied law at
Yale College
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for one year and also in a law office in
, was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Somerville. He was a member of the
New Jersey Legislative Council
The New Jersey Legislative Council was the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature under the New Jersey Constitution of 1776 until it was replaced by the New Jersey Senate under the Constitution of 1844.
History
The Legislative Council replaced ...
from 1842 to 1845, and was a delegate to the New Jersey
constitutional convention in 1844.
Brown was elected as a Whig to the
Thirty-second Congress
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, serving in office from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law. He was associate justice of the
New Jersey Supreme Court
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from 1861 until his death in
, on August 1, 1865, where he was interred in the
Somerville Old Cemetery.
References
External links
George Houston Brownat
The Political Graveyard
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1810 births
1865 deaths
People from Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
Members of the New Jersey Legislative Council
Justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Politicians from Somerville, New Jersey
New Jersey lawyers
Lawrenceville School alumni
Princeton University alumni
Yale College alumni
Burials in New Jersey
19th-century American judges
19th-century American lawyers