About John Brown
Lived 1760 – 1815 (aged 54–55). John Brown was an American politician.
John Brown (died December 13, 1815) was an American Congressman from the seventh district of Maryland.
Brown's birth date and location are unknown. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1807 to 1808 and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh Congress in 1809.
He was reelected to the Twelfth Congress, but resigned before the close of the Eleventh Congress to accept an appointment as clerk of the court of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, an office he held until his death in Centerville, Maryland.
He is interred in Chesterfield Cemetery.
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Who was John Brown?
American Congressman from the seventh district of Maryland
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John Brown was born in 1760.
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John Brown died on 13 December 1815.
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John Brown was a politician.
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