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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaJames BROWN
(1766-1835)
Senate Years of Service:
1813-1817; 1819-1823Party: Democratic Republican;
Adams-Clay RepublicanBROWN, James, (brother of
John Brown of Virginia and Kentucky (1757-1837), cousin of John
Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, and Francis Preston, uncle of
James Brown Clay), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Staunton,
Va., September 11, 1766; attended Washington College (now
Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and William and
Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; admitted to the bar
and commenced practice in Frankfort, Ky.; commanded a company of
sharpshooters in an expedition against the Indians in 1789;
secretary to the Governor 1792; soon after the cession of the
Territory of Louisiana moved to New Orleans and was appointed as
secretary of the Territory in 1804; subsequently became United
States district attorney for the Territory; elected as a Democratic
Republican to the United States Senate on December 1, 1812, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of John N. Destrehan, and
served from February 5, 1813, to March 3, 1817; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection; again elected to the United States Senate
in 1819, as an Adams-Clay Republican, and served from March 4,
1819, until December 10, 1823, when he resigned; chairman,
Committee on Foreign Relations (Sixteenth Congress); appointed
United States Minister to France 1823-1829; returned to the United
States and settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where he died on April 7,
1835; interment in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Padgett, James A., ed. ”Letters of James Brown
to Henry Clay, 1804-1835.” Louisiana Historical
Quarterly 24 (1941): 921-1177.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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