10 Facts About Lytle Brown

Lytle Brown's father had been a first lieutenant in the Confederate Army and a post-war attorney in Nashville.

Lytle Brown was a grandson of Neill S Brown, an antebellum governor of Tennessee.

Lytle Brown graduated fourth in the United States Military Academy class of 1898 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.

Lytle Brown served with engineer troops in Cuba in 1898 at the Battle of San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago before being made Engineer of the Department of Northern Luzon in the Philippine Islands in 1900.

Lytle Brown commanded the 2d Battalion of Engineers and served as engineer of Pershing's 1916 punitive expedition into Mexico.

Lytle Brown headed the War Plans Division of the War Department General Staff from May 1918 to June 1919, addressing important Army policy issues during and immediately after World War I, and was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

Lytle Brown was assistant commandant of the Army War College and a brigade commander in the Canal Zone before becoming Chief of Engineers, from 1929 to 1933.

Lytle Brown concluded his military career as commander of the Panama Canal Department.

In Huey Long's posthumous book, My First Days in the White House, Lytle Brown was to have been his nominee to be Secretary of the Interior.

Lytle Brown died at his home near Franklin, Tennessee, on May 3,1951, at the age of 78.