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Richard Lewis Brown Sr. (1854–1948) was a builder and state politician who lived in
Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville ( ) is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of North Florida, northeastern Florida. It is the county seat of Duval County, Florida, Duval County, with which the City of Jacksonv ...
. An
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, Brown was born in South Carolina and moved with his family to Florida after the
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, first to Lake City and then Jacksonville. He was married in 1875 and worked as a carpenter, farmer, and minister. He served two terms in the
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from 1881 to 1884. He worked construction for the Duval County school board and has a school named after him. He was the contractor for Centennial Hall at
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. R.L. Brown was also a member of the
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fraternity and a charter member for the Jacksonville chapter.


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African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...


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1854 births 1948 deaths African-American architects American architects Members of the Florida House of Representatives 20th-century African-American people 19th-century members of the Florida Legislature {{US-architect-19C-stub