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Edward Brown
Full Name: Edward "Ed" Brown
Date of birth: 1840
Date of death: Deceased, date unknown
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Resolutions and Journal entries |
Ed. Brown, opening day of 14th Legislature, 1/13/1874, p. 1.
House Journal.
79th Legislature, R.S., HR 589, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates of 1868-1900.
Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
81st Legislature, R.S., HCR 81, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates.
Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
85th Legislature, R.S., HR 452, celebrating Black History Month and honoring the leadership and vision of African American lawmakers.
Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
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Biographical Sketches |
Edward (Ed) Brown, portrait and biographical sketch.
Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas, 2002.
BROWN, ED (ca. 1840-?), "carpenter who apparently lived in Rusk County."
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, Edmund Brown, p. 43. Birth year 1840, Appendix D.
Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898, 2016.
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Other Resources |
Mentioned in Chapter VI, "Black Belt Politics."
The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900, 1971.
Ed Brown in 14th Legislature, p. vi.
Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants, 1970.
Ed. Brown.
Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants: a History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disfranchisement, 1935.
Harrison County "continued to support a Republican delegation to the state legislature" in 1873: Webster Flanagan to the State Senate, Shack Roberts ("black leader from Harrison County") and Ed Brown ("Negro from Rusk County, as a representative of the two county district") to the House, p. 310.
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
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Photographs |
Photograph.
Edward Brown, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph.
Edward Brown, State Preservation Board
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Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol |
14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
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