William Ripley Brown (July 16, 1840 – March 3, 1916) was a
U.S. representative
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from
Kansas
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.
Born in
Buffalo, New York
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, Brown studied at
Phillips Exeter Academy
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, location = 20 Main Street
, city = Exeter, New Hampshire
, zipcode ...
,
Exeter, New Hampshire
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. He went on to attend and graduate from
Union College
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,
Schenectady, New York
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, in 1862. He went immediately to Kansas and settled in
Emporia. He studied law. He was
admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Emporia. He was a judge of the ninth judicial district of Kansas in 1867-1877.
Brown was elected as a
Republican to the
Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876. He resumed the practice of law in
Hutchinson, Kansas. He was the register of the United States land office in
Larned, Kansas
Larned is a city in and the county seat of Pawnee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,769.
History
Larned was laid out in 1873. The first post office was established at Larned in 1872.
The c ...
, from 1883 to 1885. He moved to
El Reno, Oklahoma, in 1892 and was ap robate judge of Canadian County in 1894-1898. He died in
Kansas City, Missouri
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, on March 3, 1916, and was interred in Lawrence Cemetery in
Lawrence, Kansas
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.
References
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1840 births
1916 deaths
Union College (New York) alumni
Kansas state court judges
Oklahoma state court judges
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Politicians from Hutchinson, Kansas
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas
19th-century American legislators
People from Larned, Kansas
19th-century American judges