John George Brown (May 8, 1900 – November 11, 1958) was an Ontario politician. He was elected to the

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in the 1948 provincial election. Brown ran for his party's leadership in the 1950 Liberal leadership convention. He placed third in a field of eight candidates and remaining until the third and final ballot. He only served in the legislature for a single term, until the 1951 provincial election. He died suddenly in hospital in 1958.

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