Milton Brown (politician)

For the band leader (1903-1936), see Milton Brown.

Milton Brown (February 28, 1804 – May 15, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

Biography

He was born in Lebanon, Ohio, but later moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Brown studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar and began his practice in Paris, Tennessee, but later from Paris south to Jackson, Tennessee. There in 1835 he became a judge of the chancery court of west Tennessee and held this position until elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

Brown was reelected to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1847) and at the end of his term resumed the practice of law.

Brown was one of the founders of two Universities which still exist today: Southwestern Baptist University, which became Union University), and of Lambuth College, both in Jackson, Tennessee.

Brown also served as president of the Mississippi Central &amp. Tennessee Railroad Co. from 1854 to 1856. He served as president of the Mobile &amp. Ohio Railroad Co. from 1856 to 1871. He died in Jackson, Tennessee, on May 15, 1883.

He is interred in Riverside Cemetery.

Source

• Milton Brown (politician) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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