Charles Harrison Brown
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Charles Harrison Brown (October 22, 1920 - June 10, 2003) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Coweta, Oklahoma, Brown attended the public schools in Humansville and Republic, Missouri, and high school in Springfield, Missouri. He attended Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, in 1937, 1938, and 1940, and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1939. Program director for a radio station in Springfield, Missouri, in 1937 and 1938. Radio publicity director for Missouri Conservation Commission in 1940. Account executive for an advertising company in St. Louis, Missouri from 1943 to 1945. Founder and president of Brown Radio-TV Productions, Inc., Springfield, Missouri. Partner, Brown Brothers Advertising Agency, Nashville, St. Louis, and Springfield. He served as delegate to Democratic State and National Conventions in 1956, 1960, and 1964.
Brown was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress. Public relations consultant in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Senior vice president of an oil refining company in Los Angeles from 1973 to 1979. He died on June 10, 2003, in Henderson, Nevada.
