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Meet the Confederate spy who became mayor of Seattle
Beriah Brown (February 23, 1815 - February 8, 1900) was a newspaper publisher and politician who served as Mayor of Seattle, Washington, as well as a regent for both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Washington .
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Brown was born on February 23, 1815, in Canandaigua, New York.
A newspaper publisher by trade, Brown was a Democrat who served as Clerk and Recorder of Iowa County, Wisconsin, and was a member of the first Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1857, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. Brown was later President and Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington and was Mayor of Seattle from 1878 to 1879.
He died on February 8, 1900 in Anaconda, Montana. He was buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle.