Lathrop Brown

Lathrop Brown (born 26 February 1883 in New York City; † November 28, 1959 in Fort Myers, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lathrop Brown graduated in 1900 at the Groton School in Massachusetts and in 1903 from Harvard University. Then he went to real estate transactions. He served five years in the squadron A of the National Guard of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912, Brown was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martin W. Littleton on March 4, 1913. He suffered in 1914 during his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1915 from the Congress of. Challenging the election of Frederick C. Hicks was unsuccessful. He then worked as Special Assistant to the U.S. interior minister from March 1917 to October 1918 and during the First World War as a private in the Tank Corps. The following year he worked at the convened by President Wilson National Industrial Conference of Deputy Secretary (joint secretary ). He took in the years 1920, 1924 and 1936, in part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Between 1928 and 1932 he studied at the Graduate School of Harvard University in monetary theory. Brown moved to California in 1946 and then lived on a cattle farm. The following year he was elected to the Sheriff 's Posse in Monterey County. In the years 1954 and 1955 he was a member of the Committee, which oversaw the Graduate School of Public Administration from Harvard University. He died on November 28, 1959 in Fort Myers. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in the Abbey of the Light of Manasota Memorial Park in Sarasota ( Florida).

His home in Nissequogue, better known as the Land of Clover, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.