12 Facts About Lathrop Brown

Lathrop Brown was a United States Representative from New York.

Lathrop Brown engaged in the real estate business and served in Squadron A of the National Guard of New York, for five years.

Lathrop Brown was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress and unsuccessfully contested the election of Frederick C Hicks to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Lathrop Brown was special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior from March 1917 to October 1918, and served as a private in the Tank Corps during the First World War.

Lathrop Brown was joint secretary of President Woodrow Wilson's Industrial Conference in 1919 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920,1924, and 1936.

Lathrop Brown studied monetary theory at the Graduate School of Harvard University from 1928 to 1932.

The family lived in a series of houses beginning on Long Island where Brown bought a 100-acre estate on St James Harbor where they raised and raced horses.

Helene Lathrop Brown's bedroom was the only room with a direct view of the waterfall.

Lathrop Brown worked in the machine shop of the highway construction crew, using hand-split redwood from the canyon and other materials he bought.

Lathrop Brown was elected to the sheriff's posse of Monterey County in 1947.

Lathrop Brown was a member of a committee to supervise the Graduate School of Public Administration of Harvard University in 1954 and 1955.

Lathrop Brown died in Fort Myers, Florida and was cremated; the ashes were interred in Abbey of the Light, Manasota Memorial Park, Sarasota, Florida.