Prentiss M. Brown

Prentiss Marsh Brown, Sr. ( born June 18, 1889 in St. Ignace, Michigan, † December 19, 1973 ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party, representing the interests of Michigan in both the U.S. House of Representatives as well as represented in the U.S. Senate.

Biography

After visiting the St. Ignace high school, he studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Subsequent studies at Albion College, where he graduated from in 1911. After his admission to the bar in the State of Michigan ( State Bar of Michigan) in 1914, he worked in the following almost twenty years as a lawyer. In addition, he was active as a freemason in the Masonic Lodge of St. Ignace.

As a candidate of the Democratic Party, he was elected as Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and represented there on 4 March 1933 to 18 November 1936, the interests of the 11th electoral district of Michigan.

After the death of Senator James J. Couzens on 22 October 1936, he ran for the Democrats as his successor to the second Senate seat ( Senator Class 2 ) for Michigan and was able to prevail against his Republican opponent Wilber Marion Brucker, a former governor of Michigan. The U.S. Senate he was a member until 1943.

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