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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaWilliam Wallace BROWN
(1836-1926)
BROWN, William Wallace, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Summer Hill, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April 22, 1836; moved with his parents to Elk County,
Pa., in 1838; attended the common schools and Smethport Academy;
was graduated from Alfred University, Allegany County, N.Y., in
1861; enlisted in the Twenty-third New York Volunteers in 1861;
transferred to the First Pennsylvania Rifles December 18, 1861;
appointed recorder of deeds of McKean County in 1864 and its
superintendent of schools in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1866 and practiced; elected district attorney of McKean
County the same year; moved in 1869 to Corry, Erie County, Pa.,
where he served three years as city attorney and two years in the
city council; member of the State house of representatives
1872-1876; appointed aide-de-camp to Governor Hartranft in 1876 and
was associated with the National Guard of Pennsylvania; moved to
Bradford, Pa., in 1878 and continued the practice of law; elected
as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses
(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; city solicitor
of Bradford 1892-1897; auditor for the War Department 1897-1899;
auditor for the Navy Department 1899-1907; appointed by President
Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and served until 1910, as Assistant
Attorney General, in charge of defense of Spanish treaty claims;
resumed the practice of law in Bradford, Pa., where he died
November 4, 1926; interment in Alfred Cemetery, Alfred, Allegany
County, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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