Ernest S. Brown

Ernest S. Brown ( born September 25, 1903 in Alturas, California, † July 23, 1965 in Reno, Nevada ) was an American politician and in 1954 briefly Republican U.S. Senator for the state of Nevada.

Life

Ernest Brown retired at the age of three years, 1906, with his parents to Reno, where he also grew up. After graduating from the University of Nevada in 1926, Brown studied law and practiced afterwards in Reno. 1933 belonged to Brown at the Nevada Assembly, 1935, he was appointed District Attorney of Washoe County. In December 1941, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Brown joined the U.S. Army and was promoted from lieutenant to colonel in the course of the war.

After his leaving service in December 1945, Brown continued his work as a lawyer. The death of U.S. Senator Pat McCarran in September 1954, the reason why Brown was appointed on 1 October 1954, his successor. He represented Nevada, however, only two months in the U.S. Senate; in the re-election on 1 December 1954, he was defeated by Democratic challenger Alan Bible.

Ernest Brown died eleven years later, at the age of 61 years.

Others

About Ernest S. Brown, we know that he had been a member of the Freemasons.