15 Facts About Pat Browne

Patrick M Browne was born on December 8,1963 and is an American accountant, lawyer, and politician.

On January 12,2023, Democratic governor-elect Josh Shapiro nominated Browne to serve as secretary of revenue.

Pat Browne is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Temple University Law School.

Pat Browne is a graduate of Allentown Central Catholic High School.

Pat Browne was a tax manager for Coopers and Lybrand from 1990 to 1994 and a tax supervisor for Price Waterhouse from 1986 to 1990.

Pat Browne was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1994 to 2005.

Pat Browne has been arrested three times for DUI offenses, most recently in 2015 following a motorcycle accident resulting in a punctured lung.

Pat Browne has been accused of corruption with regard to legislation he wrote in 2009 to give tax breaks to companies in a newly designated Neighborhood Improvement Zone in Allentown.

Several beneficiaries of the NIZ have made significant campaign contributions to Pat Browne, according to state records.

Pat Browne pushed in 2013 to designate a City Revitalization and Improvement Zone in Bethlehem with similar tax breaks, and the same year Heather Pat Browne was hired as a lobbyist by the biggest potential beneficiary of that fiscal arrangement.

In 2019 Pat Browne announced that he had succeeded in diverting hundreds of millions of dollars of PennDOT funding to a project that will add another interchange on a rural stretch of Route 78, though he admitted that area residents oppose it.

Pat Browne's stated purpose in advocating for the interchange was to allow businesses to build warehouses on cheap farmland in one of the few areas of the Lehigh Valley where until then they had not proliferated.

Pat Browne narrowly lost renomination in the 2022 Republican primary to Parkland School Board member Jarrett Coleman, who defeated Pat Browne by only 24 votes.

On January 12,2023, Democratic governor-elect Josh Shapiro nominated Pat Browne to serve as secretary of revenue.

Pat Browne is the older brother of the acclaimed fashion designer Thom Browne who designed past First Lady Michelle Obama's 2013 Inauguration day ensemble.