Titus Brown

Titus Brown ( born February 11, 1786 in Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; † January 29, 1849 in Francestown, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Titus Brown attended until 1811, the Middlebury College in Vermont. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new profession from 1814 in Reading (Vermont ). In 1817 he moved his residence and his law firm after Francestown, New Hampshire.

Between 1820 and 1825 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. After that, he was from 1823 to 1825 and again from 1829 to 1834 Attorney in Hillsborough County. Politically, he joined the faction of President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. The result was the short-lived National Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1824, which were held all across the state, Brown was the second parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1825, the successor of Arthur Livermore. After a re-election in 1826, Brown was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 two legislative sessions. There he witnessed the violent clashes between his party and the followers of the future President Andrew Jackson.

In 1828 he abandoned a bid again. Between 1842 and 1844, Brown was a member and in 1842 also President of the Senate of New Hampshire. He later became chairman of the Committee of the Bank and Railway Officer ( Bank and Railroad Commissioners ). This office he held until his death on 29 January 1849.