Donald Ferguson Brown

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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| name = Donald Ferguson Brown

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| constituency_MP = Essex West

| parliament = Canadian

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| predecessor = Norman Alexander McLarty

| successor = Norman Leonard Spencer

| term_start = 1945

| term_end = 1958

| birth_date = June 30, 1903

| birth_place = Petrolia, Ontario, Canada

| death_date ={{Death date and age|1959|10|8|1903|6|30}}

| death_place =Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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| party = Liberal Party

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| occupation = barrister, lawyer

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Donald Ferguson Brown (June 30, 1903 – October 8, 1959) was a Canadian politician, barrister and lawyer. He was born in Petrolia, Ontario, Canada. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Liberal Party in the 1945 election to represent the riding of Essex West. He was re-elected in the elections of 1949, 1953, 1957 and defeated in the election of 1958. During his federal political career, he was a member of various committees including: Chairperson of the Special Committee appointed to consider Bill no. 305 : An act respecting immigration, Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Capital and Corporal Punishment and Lotteries and a member of the Joint Committee on Old Age Security. He died in 1959.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SCg_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QFAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6069,470023&dq=don-brown+and+essex-west&hl=en |title=The Windsor Daily Star - Google News Archive |date=1959-10-13 |access-date=2012-06-02}}

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