Background
Brown, George Houston was born on February 12, 1810 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Brown, George Houston was born on February 12, 1810 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States.
Graduate Princeton, 1828. Studied law Yale, 1 year, also in law office, Somerville, New Jersey Teacher.
He was a teacher in Lawrenceville Academy from 1828-1830. He studied law at Yale College for one year and also in a law office in Somerville, New Jersey, was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Somerville. Brown was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law.
He was associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1861 until his death in Somerville, New Jersey on August 1, 1865, where he was interred in the Somerville Old Cemetery.
He was a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council from 1842–1845, and was a delegate to the New Jersey constitutional convention in 1844.