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

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politician. He served as the seventh

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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

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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

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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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