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BROWN, George Edward, Jr.

BROWN, George Edward, Jr.
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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BROWN, George Edward, Jr.
1920–1999

Office

Representative

State/Territory

California

Party

Democrat

Congress(es)

88th (1963–1965), 89th (1965–1967), 90th (1967–1969), 91st (1969–1971), 93rd (1973–1975), 94th (1975–1977), 95th (1977–1979), 96th (1979–1981), 97th (1981–1983), 98th (1983–1985), 99th (1985–1987), 100th (1987–1989), 101st (1989–1991), 102nd (1991–1993), 103rd (1993–1995), 104th (1995–1997), 105th (1997–1999), 106th (1999–2001)

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Concise Biography

BROWN, George Edward, Jr., a Representative from California; born in Holtville, Imperial County, Calif., March 6, 1920; graduated from Holtville Union High School, 1935; attended El Centro Junior College, 1938; graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1946; employed by the city of Los Angeles, Calif., in personnel and engineering for twelve years between 1940 and 1957; management consultant, 1957-1962; United States Army, 1944-1946; mayor and city councilman of Monterey Park, Calif., 1954-1958; member of the California state assembly, 1959-1962; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in 1970; elected to the Ninety-third and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-July 15, 1999); chairman, Committee on Science, Space and Technology (One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses); died on July 15, 1999, in Bethesda, Md; remains cremated.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Presbyterian Historical Society

Philadelphia, PA
Papers: 1980, 1 page. A letter from George Edward Brown to Lucky Phelps, in response to a request from the Presbytery of Riverside to support congressional representation for the District of Columbia.

University of California, Riverside
Special Collections and Archives, Tomas Rivera Library

Riverside, CA
Papers: ca. 1960s-1970s, 525 boxes and 9 file cabinets. The papers of George Brown document details from his first political post as mayor of Monterey Park, Calif., to his tenure as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

University of Oklahoma
The Julian P. Kanter Commercial Archives, Department of Communication

Norman, OK
Videocassettes: 1988, 1 videocassette. A commercial used during the campaign of George Edward Brown for the 1988 congressional election in California, Democratic Party.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Memorial Tributes Held in the House of Representatives of the United States together with Memorial Services in Eulogy of George E. Brown, Jr., Late a Representative from California, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1999.

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