Ernest S. Brown (September 25, 1903July 23, 1965) served briefly as a

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from

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in 1954. Ernest Brown, born in

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, moved with his family to

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, in 1906, where he later attended the public schools. He graduated from the

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in 1926. Brown gained admission to the

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in 1927 and then commenced a legal practice in Reno. He served in the Nevada State Assembly in 1933. From 1935 to 1941, Brown worked as district attorney of Washoe County. He resigned from office in 1941 to enter active service in the

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as a second lieutenant. He gained a commission as a colonel, and the Army discharged him in 1945. Brown returned to his Reno home to resume the practice of law. On October 1, 1954, Nevada Governor Charles H. Russell appointed Ernest Brown to the U.S. Senate as a

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to fill the vacancy caused by the death of veteran Senator

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. Democrat Alan Bible defeated him in a special election to keep his Senate seat in November 1954. Bible assumed the seat on December 1, 1954, and Brown once again resumed the practice of law. Brown died in Reno in 1965, and was interred in the

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section of Mountain View Cemetery.

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