Background
Born Leanna Cawley Young, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mistress Harold H. Young. Her father was a partner at the New York brokerage firm of Eastman Dillon.
Born Leanna Cawley Young, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mistress Harold H. Young. Her father was a partner at the New York brokerage firm of Eastman Dillon.
She attended the Northfield School for Girls (now part of Northfield Mount Hermon School) in Gill, Massachusetts, graduating in 1952. After graduating from Smith College in 1956, she married William Stanley Brown, who had attended the Mount Hermon School and Yale University and would go on to be a scientist at Bell laboratories
Brown served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature where she represented the 26th Legislative District, and parts of Morris and Passaic Counties. She was the first Republican woman elected to the New Jersey Senate. She became active in local politics, serving on the Chatham Borough Council from 1969 to 1972.
In 1972 she was elected to serve on the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
She was named freeholder director in 1976 and president of the New Jersey Association of Counties in 1978. In 1983, she challenged her former running-mate, James P. Vreeland, for the Republican nomination for State Senate in the 26th Legislative District.
In 1989 she formed an exploratory committee to consider becoming a candidate for Governor of New Jersey. In 1993, Brown resigned from the State Senate when she was appointed to the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, initially to serve out the unexpired term of Charles J. Irwin.
Assemblymember Robert Martin was chosen to fill Brown"s vacancy in the Senate.
The following year she was named by Governor Christine Todd Whitman to a full five-year term on the Commission, serving until 1999. In 2001 she volunteered to work on the transition team for President George West. Bush. In May 2007 she was appointed by Bush to serve on the President"s Commission on White House Fellowships.
Stan died on January 16, 2013.
Protestant
Vice chair National Republican Platform Committee, 1992. Co-chair New Jersey Bush/Quayle Campaign, 1988, 92. Campaign coordinator State Republican Majority, 1991.
TrusteeMorris Museum Arts and Science, since 1975, Arts Council Morris Area, since 1973. Delegate White House Conference on Libraries and Information Superior vena cava syndrome, since 1991. Development county New Jersey.Sci. and Technology Center, Liberty State Park, since 1986.
Member board visitors Drew U. Member New Jersey Association Elected Women (president 1982, 83).
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