Orlando Brown (September 26, 1801July 6, 1867) was a

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politician, newspaper publisher and historian, who also held the office of

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during the

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administration. Brown was a Whig and an anti-secessionist. He was the son of

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, Kentucky's first member of Congress. Orlando Brown received his appointment as

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based on his loyalty to the Taylor campaign, and used it to distribute further

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appointments. He became disillusioned with the position, and resigned it on July 1, 1850, eight days before Taylor died. Brown spent most of his later years working on a history of Kentucky governors, but his work was uncompleted when he died in 1867.

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