Robert Brown (Pennsylvania politician)

Robert Brown ( born December 25, 1744 Weaverville, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † February 26, 1823 ) was an American politician. Between 1798 and 1815 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Brown grew up during the British colonial period. He attended the common schools and worked as a blacksmith. In the 1770s he joined the American Revolution. He participated in the following Revolutionary War and was between November 1776 and December 1777 in British captivity. Between 1783 and 1787 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania. End of the 1790s he became a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party.

In a by-election in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania, Brown was elected to the Council, meeting at that time still in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1798. After eight elections he could remain until March 3, 1815 Congress. Between 1803 and 1813 he represented there and the second from 1813 to 1815 the sixth district of his state. During his time as a congressman, the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged in 1803 by the investments made by President Jefferson Louisiana Purchase. In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Previously was in 1800, the new federal capital, Washington DC related. Since 1812, the events of the British - American War also determined the work of the Congress.

In 1814, Robert Brown gave up another candidacy. He retired from public life and spent his last years on his farm near Weaverville, where he died on 26 February 1823.