Preceded by (none) Name Arthur Brown Political party Republican Role U.S. senator | Children Alice
Max Party Republican Party Religion Congregationalist | |
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Born March 8, 1843
Kalamazoo, Michigan ( 1843-03-08 ) Spouse(s) LC Brown (div.)
Isabel Cameron Alma mater University of Michigan Law School Died December 12, 1906, Washington, D.C., United States Education University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan, Antioch College Similar People Alain Montpetit, John Sherman, Samuel F Phillips, Joseph Saxton, Enoch Crowder | ||
Succeeded by Joseph Lafayette Rawlins | ||
Arthur Brown (March 8, 1843 – December 12, 1906) was a United States Senator from Utah.
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Early Life
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he attended the common schools and graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1862. He pursued graduate work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1864. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Kalamazoo.
Career
In 1879, he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and upon the admission of Utah as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from January 22, 1896, until March 4, 1897. He was not a candidate for renomination and resumed the practice of law in Salt Lake City. Brown was also the second cousin of President Calvin Coolidge.
Death
On December 8, 1906, Brown was shot in Washington, D.C., by his longtime mistress, Anne Maddison Bradley, who claimed to be the mother of his children. The lovers were jailed more than once for adultery. Bradley found love letters to Brown from Asenath Ann "Annie" Adams Kiskadden (an actress who was the mother of actress Maude Adams), confronted him at The Raleigh Hotel on 12th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue, and assumed he was having a second affair. Brown died from his wounds four days later, aged 63, and was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City. At trial, it was revealed that Brown's will renounced Bradley and the two sons she claimed he sired, and a sympathetic jury acquitted her. Brown's murder was featured in an episode of Deadly Women, entitled "Ruthless Revenge".
Arthur Brown was a member of the Phillips Congregational Church in Salt Lake City.