John Robert Brown (Virginia politician)

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|name=John Robert Brown

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|state=Virginia

|district=5th

|term=March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889

|preceded=George Cabell

|succeeded=Posey G. Lester

|party = Republican

|birth_date={{birth date|1842|1|14|mf=y}}

|birth_place= Franklin County, Virginia

|death_date={{death date and age|1927|8|4|1842|1|14|mf=y}}

|death_place=Martinsville, Virginia

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|profession=tobacco farmer, politician

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|battles = American Civil War

|allegiance = {{flag|Confederate States of America}}

|branch = {{army|CSA}}

|unit = {{Flagicon|Virginia|1861}} 44th Virginia Infantry Regiment

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John Robert Brown (January 14, 1842 – August 4, 1927) was a United States representative from Virginia.

Biography

Born near Snow Creek, Franklin County, Virginia, he attended private schools in Franklin and Henry Counties and entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private in Company D, Twenty-fourth Regiment of Virginia Volunteers. In 1870 he formed a partnership with his father in the tobacco business at Shady Grove; he moved to Martinsville, Virginia in 1882 and continued in the tobacco business. He also engaged in banking and was mayor of Martinsville from 1884 to 1888.

Brown was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1889, winning 57.06% of the vote, defeating Democrat George Craighead Cabell; he unsuccessfully contested the election of Claude A. Swanson to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He reengaged in the tobacco business and retired from active business pursuits; Brown died in Martinsville, with interment in Oakwood Cemetery.{{cite web|title=Biography of John R. Brown|url=http://www.onlinebiographies.info/va/brown-jr.htm|publisher=Online Biographies|quote=FROM: A History of Henry County, Virginia, By: Judith Parks America Hill Martinsville, Virginia 1925|access-date=2014-10-21|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000609/http://www.onlinebiographies.info/va/brown-jr.htm|url-status=dead}}