Henry E. Brown, Jr.

Henry Edward Brown ( born December 20, 1935 in Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina) is an American politician. From January 2001 to January 2011, he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Brown attended until 1953, the Berkeley High School in Moncks Corner. After that, he began studying at the Charleston Southern University, but which he did not finish. Instead, he attended the IBM Management and Technical School. He then worked for a grocery store chain. From 1953 to 1962 Brown was also a member of the National Guard of South Carolina. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1985 and 2000 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. There he was involved in the drafting of one of the largest tax cuts in the history of his state. Between 1996 and 2000 Brown sat in the council of Hanahan.

In the congressional elections of 2000, Henry Brown was the first electoral district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he stepped on 3 January 2001 in the footsteps of Mark Sanford. He announced before the 2010 elections, no longer to run. Brown was most recently a member of three committees: the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Veterans Affairs. He was also in six subcommittees. On January 3, 2011, he resigned from the Congress.

In 2004, he caused a stir when he was a controlled fire laid on his property, but went out of control and destroyed parts of the neighboring Francis Marion National Forest. He had to pay a small penalty, which did not cover the damage done by far.

Henry Brown is married to Winifred Brown. He lives privately in Hanahan.