Arthur Brown (American politician)

Arthur Brown
United States Senator from Utah
In office January 22, 1896 – March 4, 1897
Preceded by	(none)
Succeeded by	Joseph L. Rawlins
Personal details
Born	(1843-03-08)March 8, 1843 Kalamazoo, Michigan
Died	December 12, 1906(1906-12-12) (aged 63) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	LC Brown (div.) Isabel Cameron
Children	Alice Max
Alma mater	Antioch College University of Michigan Law School

Arthur Brown (March 8, 1843 – December 12, 1906) was a United States Senator from Utah.

Early life

Isabel Cameron

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 future President Calvin Coolidge and a member of the Phillips Congregational Church, in Salt Lake City.

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".

External links

• United States Congress. "Arthur Brown (id: B000902)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Shooting of Arthur Brown Utah History To-Go