Ethan Allen Brown (July 4, 1776February 24, 1852) was a

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politician. He served as the seventh governor of Ohio.

Biography

Brown was born in

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to Roger Brown, a prosperous farmer and a Revolutionary War veteran. Brown studied with a private tutor, and he was proficient in French, Latin and Greek. He studied law under Alexander Hamilton for five years and was admitted to the bar in 1802.

Career

He moved near

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in 1803. He was appointed to the

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in 1810 and was re-elected in 1817. Brown was elected to the governorship a year later and was re-elected in 1820. He resigned on January 3, 1822 to take office in the

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after the death of William A. Trimble. He was defeated for re-election in 1824 by

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. Brown was the Ohio

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in 1828 for

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. An active supporter of

, Brown was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to

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in 1830 and served for four years. He then served as commissioner of the General Land Office in Washington, D.C. from 1835 to 1836. In 1836, he retired to a family farm in

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most likely staying at the David Brown House in Ohio County. Brown later served a single term in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843.

Honors and Memberships

Brown was elected a member of the

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in 1818.

Death

Brown died in 1852 at a Democratic Convention held in

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, and is buried in the Cedar Hedge Cemetery located in Rising Sun, the county seat of

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References

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