Rich Brown (Richard J. Brown, born April 9, 1956) is the assistant clerk, former clerk, and former Democratic member of the

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. Brown had a career in radio, for WUUN (now WFXD) in Marquette and as news director at

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, before working as a reporter for the

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. He was also the director of the Marty's Goldenaires Senior Drum and Bugle Corps in Bessemer. Immediately prior to his election to the House, Brown served 16 years as

Gogebic County Gogebic County ( ) is the westernmost county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the westernmost in the state as a whole. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 14,380. The county seat is Bessemer. This was historical ...

Clerk and Register of Deeds, and was named Michigan County Clerk of the Year in 1992.152 Cong. Rec E1877 (2006)
Tribute to Rich Brown
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