Louis J. Brann
Louis Jefferson Brann ( born July 6, 1876 in Madison, Somerset County, Maine, † February 3, 1948 ) was an American politician and 1933-1937 Governor of the State of Maine.
Early years and political rise
Louis Brann attended the local schools of his home and then graduated in 1898 from the University of Maine. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1902 as a lawyer. Then he began a successful career as a trial lawyer.
In 1906, Brann attorney of the city of Lewiston. There he became in 1908 director of the tax office (tax collector). Between 1909 and 1913 he was employed at the probate court and then for two years Judge of the Municipal Court in Lewiston. Between 1915 and 1916, and again from 1922 to 1924, he served as mayor of this place. Brann was a member of the Democratic Party and served temporarily as its chairman in the state of Maine. As a candidate of his party, he was elected in 1932 as the new governor of Maine. So Maine was in a nationwide trend that saw the Democrats on the rise in the wake of the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as U.S. president.
Governor of Maine
Brann took up his new position on January 4, 1933 and was for a re-election in 1934 until January 6, 1937 remain in office. At the beginning of his tenure, the country was still suffering badly from the effects of the Great Depression. Only in the course of time, you could gradually overcome with the help of the New Deal policies of the federal government this crisis. But Brann also undertook its own efforts to tackle the crisis. So he put two million from the sale of government bonds to those affected by the crisis than relief available. Brann tried to make it attractive and to attract tourists to Maine and the state for tourism.
In the years 1936 and 1938, respectively Brann applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Also in 1938, the attempt of returning to the office of governor. He then retired to private life. Louis Brann died in 1948. He was married to Martha J. Cobb, with whom he had four children.