Elias Brown Explained

Elias Brown
Office:Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Term Start:March 4, 1829
Term End:March 3, 1831
Predecessor:John Barney and Peter Little
Successor:John Tolley Hood Worthington
Office1:Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Term Start1:1834
Term End1:1835
Office2:Member of the Maryland Senate
Term Start2:1836
Term End2:1838
Birth Date:May 9, 1793
Birth Place:Near Baltimore, Maryland
Death Date:July 3, 1857
Death Place:Near Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality:American
Party:Jacksonian (later Whigs)
Occupation:Politician

Elias Brown (May 9, 1793 – July 3, 1857)[1] was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.

Born near Baltimore, Maryland, Brown attended the common schools. He served as presidential elector on the ticket of James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins in 1820 and on the ticket of John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush in 1828.

Brown was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress, where he served from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1831. He also served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1834 and 1835, and as member of the Maryland Senate from 1836 to 1838. In 1836, he served as presidential elector on the ticket of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, and served as delegate to the State constitutional convention the same year. He died near Baltimore, Maryland, and is interred in a private cemetery near Eldersburg, Maryland.

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ntVpHBIz0hAC&dq=elias+brown+maryland+july+1857&pg=PA882 History of Western Maryland