Ernest S. Brown

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Ernest S. Brown (September 25, 1903 - July 25, 1965) was a United States Senator from Nevada. Born in Alturas, California, he moved with his family to Reno, Nevada in 1906 and attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1926, and was admitted to the bar in 1927, commencing practice in Reno. He was a member of the State assembly in 1933, and was district attorney of Washoe County from 1935 to 1941, and resigned in 1941 to enter active service in the United States Army as a second lieutenant. He was commissioned a colonel and discharged in 1945, and then returned to Reno to resume the practice of law.

On October 1, 1954, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pat McCarran, and served until December 1, 1954. He was unsuccessful for election to the vacancy, and resumed the practice of law. He died in Reno in 1965, and was interred in the Masonic section of Mountain View Cemetery.

Preceded by Pat McCarran

U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Nevada 1954–1954

Succeeded by Alan H. Bible

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• This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.