Background
He was born on September 20, 1921, he lost a finger in an accident when he was young.
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Reagan Brown
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Brown graduated from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1943.
Career
He served in the United States. Army during World World War World War II
Governor Dolph Briscoe appointed Brown to succeed longtime Agriculture Commissioner John C. White, when White resigned to serve in the Carter administration in Washington, District of Columbia In 1978, Brown was elected under the new statute providing four-year terms for statewide elected officials. He was known for his fight for pest and predator control. To prevent the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly from California to Texas in 1981, Brown required California produce to be fumigated before entering the state.
Under special legislation passed during the fruit-fly crisis, the department was authorized to seize or to destroy infested products and to stop interstate and intrastate traffic to enforce the law.
Brown also worked to halt the spread of the imported fire ant. He even famously put his hand into a fire ant mound at the urging of a television reporter while news cameras rolled.
Hightower unseated Brown in a heavily Democratic year in Texas and nationally. Eight years later Hightower was himself unseated by future Governor Rick Perry.
In 1983, Brown bought the near Bryan, Texas.
He bred bison, which were once plentiful in Texas but had since been hunted to near-extinction. Brown died in a farm tractor accident at his ranch in Brazos County on November 16, 1999.
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Political Party
Democratic party