Charles Elwood Brown

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Charles Elwood Brown (July 4, 1834 - May 22, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Brown attended the common schools and Greenfield Academy, and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1854. He went south and, while serving as tutor at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Chillicothe, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney of Ross County in 1859 and 1860. Enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, September 2, 1861, and was commissioned captain October 23, 1861. He was promoted through the ranks to colonel June 6, 1865, and brevetted brigadier general March 13, 1865. Mustered out July 8, 1865. He resumed the practice of law in Chillicothe, Ohio. Postmaster of Chillicothe 1866-1872. Commissioned pension agent at Cincinnati in 1872, which position he held until President Hayes' administration.

Brown was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He resumed the practice of law. He served as member of the State senate in 1900 and 1901. He died at College Hill, Ohio, on May 22, 1904. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.