Jeremiah Brown (politician)

Jeremiah Brown ( born April 14, 1785 Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, † March 2, 1858 in Goshen, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1841 and 1845 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeremiah Brown worked in the mill business and agriculture. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1826 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Ten years later he took part in a constitutional convention of his state as a delegate. Around this time he became a member of the mid-1830s caused the Whig Party.

In the congressional elections of 1840, Brown was the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Davies on March 4, 1841. After a re-election in the eighth district of his state, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1845 two legislative sessions. His time in Congress was marked by tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

In 1844 Jeremiah Brown gave up another Congress candidate. Between 1851 and 1856 he was an Associate Justice in Lancaster. He was also an opponent of slavery and supported the Underground Railroad, an escape system for the help of slaves who wanted to escape slavery. To this end, he also accommodation in his house. He died on March 2, 1858 in Goshen.