John Y. Brown, Sr.

John Young Brown ( born February 1, 1900 is Geiger's Lake, Union County, Kentucky, † June 16, 1985 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Brown attended the common schools and then high school in Sturgis. In 1921 he graduated from Centre College in Danville. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and his 1926 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Lexington in this profession. He was also engaged in farming.

Politically, Brown was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1930 to 1932, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky; In 1932 he was president of this chamber. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the ninth constituency of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1933, the successor of Fred M. Vinson. Since he was not nominated for the elections of the year 1934 by his party, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the prohibition law was repealed in 1919 again by the 21th Amendment. Moreover, at this time joined the new rules into force after the start the legislative sessions of Congress each on 3 January after the election.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives sat Brown his legal work on. He also remained politically active. In 1939 he applied unsuccessfully to the Nomierung his party for the gubernatorial elections in Kentucky. In the years 1936 and 1948 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions, to which the President Franklin D. Roosevelt and later Harry S. Truman were each nominated for a second term. Between 1936 and 1966 Brown ran several times unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate or for his party's nomination for this body. In the 1950s and 1960s, Brown was repeatedly deputy in the State Parliament. He was considered one of the most effective members. He supported the introduction of VAT and the implementation of the Civil Rights Act.

John Brown was married to Dorothy Inman Brown. The couple had five children, including his son John, who was between 1979 and 1983 Governor of Kentucky. He died on 16 June 1985 in a hospital in Louisville at the consequences of a car accident he had suffered in December 1984; since he was paralyzed from the waist down.