Background
Brown, Edgar Allan was born on July 11, 1888 in near Aiken, South Carolina. Son of Augustus Abraham and Elizabeth (Howard) Brown.
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Edgar Allan Brown
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Student, Graniteville Academy, 1902-1906; Bachelor of Laws (honorary), Clemson College, 1955.
Career
Court reporter, 2d South Carolina. Circuit, 1908-1918; senior member, Brown, Jefferies & Mazursky, Barnwell, South Carolina. vice president, The Bank of Barnwell. Director North Augusta Banking Company, State Bank & Trust Company, Cooper Motor Lines.
Achievements
Membership
Life trustee Clemson College, South Carolina. Member, past Chairman of the Board managers Council ofState Govts. Chairman, general counsel Clark's Hill Authority of South Carolina.
Member State Budget and Control Board. Delegate-at-large National Democratic Convention, New York City, 1924, Philadelphia, 1948, Chicago, 1952. Candidate for United States Senate, 1926, 38.
Member of national Executive Committee Democratic Party of South Carolina., 1953. Chairman county Democratic Executive Committee, member state Democratic Executive Committee, from 1914. Member South Carolina.
House of Representatives, 1921-1926, speaker, 1925-1926. Member South Carolina. State Senate, from 1929, president pro tempore, also chairman senate finance committee, from 1942.
Member American, South Carolina. (former president) bar associations, Carolina Motor Club (formerchmn. board), Masons, Shriners.
Connections
Married Annie Love Sitgreaves, December 30, 1913. 1 daughter, Emily McBurney (Mistress Richard M. Jefferies Junior).
