Person:Garry Brown (1)

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Garry Brown grew up on the dairy farm his family in Kalamazoo County. During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in an infantry unit of the U.S. Army . He was against the war in Japan used. After studying law at the George Washington University in 1954 and its recent approval as a lawyer began in Kalamazoo to work in his new profession. Between 1957 and 1962 he was a Federal Commissioner for Federal Judicial District in the western part of the State of Michigan.

Politically, Brown was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1961 and 1962 he served on a commission to revise the constitution of Michigan. From 1962 to 1966 he was in the state Senate , where he was majority leader of the Senate Republicans. In the congressional elections of 1966, Brown was the third constituency elected from Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he at third January 1967, the successor of Paul H. Todd of the Democratic Party took. After five re-elections he could until 3 January 1979 six parliamentary terms in Congress pass. During this time, among other things, ended the Vietnam War . In 1974 the policy of America was the Watergate scandal rocked. In 1967, the 25th in 1971 and 26th Amendment adopted.

In the elections of 1978, Garry Brown defeated Democrat Howard Wolpe . After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he remained in Washington, where he worked until his death on 27 August 1998 as a lawyer. He was married with Deanna Delong (1938-2004), with whom he had four daughters.

1. ↑ Burial:
   Schoolcraft Cemetery
   Schoolcraft
   Kalamazoo County
   Michigan, USA
   
   Find A Grave Memorial# 36217275