Charles Harrison Brown

For other people named Charles Brown, see Charles Brown (disambiguation).
Charles H. "Charlie" Brown
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's 7th district
In office
January 3, 1957  January 3, 1961
Preceded by Dewey Short
Succeeded by Durward G. Hall
Personal details
Born (1920-10-22)October 22, 1920
Coweta, Oklahoma
Died June 10, 2003(2003-06-10) (aged 82)
Henderson, Nevada
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Jean Brown
Alma mater Drury College
Occupation radio and TV executive
advertising executive

Charles Harrison Brown (October 22, 1920 – June 10, 2003), known as Charlie Brown, was a two-term U.S. representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district from 195761, and is the most recent Democrat to serve from that district.

Brown was born in Coweta, Oklahoma, attended public schools in Humansville and Republic, Missouri, and high school in Springfield. He attended Drury College in 1937, 1938 and 1940 and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1939.

From 193738, Brown was program director of KWTO-AM in Springfield, where he had been an announcer at age 16. He was radio publicity director for the Missouri Conservation Commission in 1940, and was an account executive for an advertising agency in St. Louis, Missouri from 1943 to 1945.

He founded and was president of Brown Radio-TV Productions, Inc. in Springfield; and was a partner with the Brown Brothers Advertising Agency, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee; St. Louis; and Springfield. He briefly produced The Eddy Arnold Show on ABC-TV in 1956 before resigning in August of that year after he had won the primary election.[1]

Brown served as delegate to Democratic state and national conventions in 1956, 1960 and 1964. He was elected as a Democrat to the 85th and 86th Congresses (January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1961), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960.

He became a public relations consultant in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California, and was senior vice president of an oil refining company in Los Angeles from 1973 to 1979. Brown died on June 10, 2003 in Henderson, Nevada at age 82.

Notes

  1. Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent and Tunes" (September 8, 1956), The Billboard, p. 55

References

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Dewey Short
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's 7th congressional district

1957–1961
Succeeded by
Durward G. Hall
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