Ethan Allen Brown
Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Infobox officeholder Ethan Allen Brown (July 4, 1776Template:Spaced ndashFebruary 24, 1852) was a Democratic-Republican politician. He served as the seventh governor of Ohio.<ref>Fess, Simeon D., ed. Ohio: A Four-Volume Reference Library on the History of a Great State. Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing</ref>
Biography
Brown was born in Darien, Connecticut<ref name=bioguide>Template:Cite web</ref> to Roger Brown, a prosperous farmer and a Revolutionary War veteran.<ref name=ohiohist>Template:Cite web</ref>
Brown studied with a private tutor, and he was proficient in French, Latin and Greek.<ref name=ohiohist/> He studied law under Alexander Hamilton for five years and was admitted to the bar in 1802.<ref name=bioguide/>
Career
He moved near Cincinnati, Ohio in 1803. He was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court 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 U.S. Senate after the death of William A. Trimble. He was defeated for re-election in 1824 by William Henry Harrison.
Brown was the Ohio Presidential elector in 1828 for Andrew Jackson.<ref>Taylor 1899 : 145</ref> An active supporter of Andrew Jackson, Brown was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Brazil 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 Indiana 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 American Antiquarian Society in 1818.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Death
Brown died in 1852 at a Democratic Convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is buried in the Cedar Hedge Cemetery located in Rising Sun, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana.
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- 19th-century American diplomats
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- American surveyors
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- Democratic Party members of the Indiana House of Representatives
- Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States
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