Webster E. Brown

Webster Everett Brown ( * July 16, 1851 in Peterboro, Madison County, New York, † December 14, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. From 1901 to 1907 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1857, Webster Brown came with his parents to Wisconsin. There, the family first lived in Newport, then in Hull and finally in Stockton. Brown attended the public schools in these cities, then the Lawrence University in Appleton and then until 1870, the Spencerian Business College in Milwaukee. He finished his training with a closed in 1874 graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. From 1875 he began in Stevens Point to work in the timber industry. In 1882, Brown moved to Rhinelander where he was also active in the timber industry. He also participated in the production of paper. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1894 and 1895 he was mayor of the town Rhinelander.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Brown was in the ninth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alexander Stewart on March 4, 1901. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907, this three legislative periods. After the elections of 1902 he represented there as the successor of John J. Jenkins the tenth district of his state. Since 1903, he was Chairman of the Mining Committee.

1906 Brown waived on a bid again for Congress. In the following years he took his previous jobs in Rhinelander again. He died on December 14, 1929 in Chicago, where he had gone for medical treatment for health problems.