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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Prentiss M. Brown |
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St. Ignace, Michigan , United States |
| Email | None |
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June 18, 1889 |
| Died |
December 19, 1973
(84 years) |
| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | Brown was born in St. Ignace, Michigan and attended the public schools there. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated from Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1911. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced practice in St. Ignace. He was prosecuting attorney of Mackinac County 1914-1926 and the city attorney of St. Ignace 1916-1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 to the United States House of Representatives and in 1928 for election as justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He was a member of the State Board of Law Examiners 1930-1942.
Brown married Marion Walker in 1916.[1] The couple had a total of seven children.[2]
Brown was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the United States House of Representatives for the 73rd Congress and was reelected to the 74th Congress, serving from March 4, 1933, until his resignation, effective November 18, 1936.
He was elected as a Democrat on November 3, 1936, to the United States Senate for the term beginning January 3, 1937, but was subsequently appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Couzens for the term ending January 3, 1937. In total, he served from November 19, 1936, to January 3, 1943.
He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Claims in the Seventy-seventh Congress. He was also a member of the Banking and Currency Committee, and in this capacity was instrumental in helping Franklin D. Roosevelt achieve his desired wage and farm price controls.[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1942.
In December of 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, replacing Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections.[3] In 1943 he resumed the practice of law in both Washington, D.C., and Detroit, Michigan. He also served as chairman of the Detroit Edison Company.
In 1951, Brown was named chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority and served until his death.
Brown died in St. Ignace at the age of 84 and is interred there at Lakeside Cemetery.
Two of Brown's children were also active in Democratic party politics. Prentiss M. Brown, Jr., ran unsuccessfully for Congress several times, in 1952, 1956, 1958, and 1960,[1] and was the city attorney for St. Ignace for 50 years.[2] Paul W. Brown was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1971 until 1994, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 1974.
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