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Brown, John (Lawyer United States senator)

lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 12, 1757, in Staunton, Va. He was elected a member of the Virginia legislature from the district of Kentucky, and was appointed a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress, from 1787 to 1788. He was a representative from Kentucky to the federal congress from 1789 to 1791; a United States senator from 1793 to 1805, and was the last survivor of the old congress, and the first member from the Valley of the Mississippi. He died Aug. 28, 1837, in Frankfort, Ky.