Milton Brown

Milton Brown (February 28, 1804 – May 15, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee. Biography Brown was born in Lebanon, Ohio. After growing up, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee. He married Sarah F. Jackson on January 21, 1835, and they had seven children, four boys and three girls. Career Brown studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar and began his practice in Paris, Tennessee, but later, he moved south to Jackson, Tennessee. In 1835 Brown became a judge of the chancery court of west Tennessee and held this position until he was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress, representing the twelfth district. He served in that Capacity from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843. Reelected to the two succeeding Congresses representing the eleventh district, he served from March 4, 1843 to March 4, 1847.