Paul Brown (March 31, 1880 – September 24, 1961) was an American
politician and
lawyer
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, who served in the
United States House of Representatives.
Brown was born in
Hartwell Hartwell may refer to:
Places
* Hartwell, Victoria, a neighbourhood of Camberwell in Melbourne, Australia
** Hartwell railway station
England
* Hartwell, Buckinghamshire
* Hartwell, Northamptonshire, a village
* Hartwell, Staffordshire, a loca ...
,
Georgia, and graduated from the
University of Georgia School of Law in
Athens with a
Bachelor of Laws (
LL.B.) degree in 1901. He was admitted to the state bar in that year and began practicing law in
Lexington, Georgia. He farmed and also served as the
Mayor of Lexington from 1908 to 1914. Brown served in the
Georgia House of Representatives in 1907 and 1908.
In 1920, Brown moved to
Elberton, Georgia in
Elbert County and served as that county's attorney from 1928 to 1933. In 1932, he was a delegate to the
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
Democratic National Convention
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. The next year Brown successfully ran in a special election to fill the vacant seat in
Georgia's 10th congressional district
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in the
United States House of Representatives caused by the death of incumbent
Charles Hillyer Brand. Brown finished the rest of that term in the
73rd United States Congress and was reelected to 13 additional terms in that position.
A staunch
segregationist, in 1956, Brown signed
"The Southern Manifesto."
In 1960, he did not seek reelection. Brown died the next year on September 24, 1961, in Elberton and was buried in that city's Elmhurst Cemetery.
See also
*
Politics of the United States
References
''History of the University of Georgia'', Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949, p.1924
External links
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1880 births
1961 deaths
People from Hartwell, Georgia
University of Georgia alumni
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Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Elberton, Georgia
20th-century American politicians
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