William Gay Brown, Jr.

William Gay Brown Jr. ( born April 7, 1856 in Kingwood, Virginia; † March 9, 1916 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1916 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Gay Brown was the son of William Gay Brown, Sr. (1800-1865), who was both for Virginia as well as West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives. The younger Brown was born in 1856 in Kingswood, which was then still part of the state of Virginia. Later the city was part of the company founded in 1863 State of West Virginia. Brown attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1878, the West Virginia University in Morgantown. After studying law and its made ​​in 1877 admitted to the bar he began in Preston County to work in his new profession. He also went into the banking business.

Brown was a member of the Democratic Party and was elected in 1910 as the candidate in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1911 is the successor of the Republican George Cookman Sturgiss. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on March 9, 1916 at the Congress. He was buried in his birthplace of Kingwood. During his time in Congress, there were the 16th and the 17th Amendment, discussed and adopted. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.