John Brown (Pennsylvania)

John Brown (* August 12, 1772 in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, † October 12, 1845 in Buncombe County, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1825 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Brown attended the public schools of his home. Later he worked in the grain and Sägemühlengeschäft. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1809 and 1813 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson.

In the congressional elections of 1820, Brown was in the ninth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Plunkett Maclay on March 4, 1821. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1825 two legislative sessions. Since 1823 he represented there as a successor of Thomas Patterson the twelfth district of his state.

In 1827, John Brown moved into the Buncombe County in North Carolina, where he worked in agriculture and real estate business. There he died on 12 October 1845.