Jeremiah Brown (politician)

Jeremiah Brown (April 14, 1785 – March 2, 1858) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Jeremiah Brown was born in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania. He engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1826. He was a delegate to the convention to revise the State constitution in 1836.

Brown was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844. He served as first associate judge for Lancaster and served from 1851 to 1856. He died in Goshen, Pennsylvania, in 1858. Interment in the cemetery adjoining Penn Hill Quaker Meeting House in Little Britain Township.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Francis James
John Edwards
Edward Davies
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district

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alongside: Francis James and John Edwards
Succeeded by
Charles J. Ingersoll
Preceded by
Peter Newhard
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district

18431845
Succeeded by
John Strohm