The Political Graveyard: Brown family of Kentucky

Brown family of Kentucky

Note: This is just one of 643 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

Some families traditionally (and perhaps properly) considered separately are joined together here if linked by marriage or otherwise. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the state or lists of states of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

John Young Brown, Sr. (1900-1985) — also known as John Y. Brown — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born near Geigers Lake, Union County, Ky., February 1, 1900. Son of Jesse C. Brown and Lucy (Keeper) Brown; married, March 4, 1928, to Dorothy Urman; father of John Young Brown, Jr.; grandfather of John Young Brown III. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; school principal; athletic coach; lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1930-33, 1946-47, 1954-55, 1962-63, 1966-67 (76th District 1930-31, 75th District 1932-33, 49th District 1946-47, 1954-55, 1962-63, 56th District 1966-67); defeated in primary, 1973; U.S. Representative from Kentucky at-large, 1933-35; defeated in primary, 1980; Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1936 (primary), 1942 (primary), 1946, 1948 (primary), 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1936, 1948, 1964 (alternate), 1980; candidate in primary for Governor of Kentucky, 1939. Methodist; later Christian. Member, American Bar Association; Elks; Phi Kappa Tau; Phi Alpha Delta; Kiwanis; Freemasons. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., June 16, 1985. Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
- See also: congressional biography.
John Young Brown, Jr. (b. 1933) — also known as John Y. Brown, Jr. — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., December 28, 1933. Son of John Young Brown, Sr.; married to Phyllis George (Miss America 1971); father of John Young Brown III. Democrat. Governor of Kentucky, 1979-83; defeated in primary, 1987; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1980. Owner at various times of Buffalo Braves, Boston Celtics and Kentucky Colonels basketball teams, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain. Still living as of 2009.
- See also: National Governors Association biography; NNDB dossier.
John Young Brown III — also known as John Y. Brown III — of Kentucky. Grandson of John Young Brown, Sr.; son of John Young Brown, Jr.. Secretary of state of Kentucky, 1996-2000. Still living as of 2000.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 192,291 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13271.html
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
If you are searching for a specific individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.

Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — The site is currently hosted by Hostmonster, but we remain grateful for a decade-plus with our former web host, Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 24, 2009.

Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2009 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.