Fayette County KyArchives Biographies.....Brown, James September 11 1766 - April 7 1835 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 December 28, 2004, 12:01 pm Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878 Hon. James Brown, Lawyer, son of Rev. John Brown and Margaret Preston, and brother of the distinguished lawyer, John Brown, was born September 11, 1766, in Virginia. He was educated at William and Mary College; came to Kentucky and settled at Lexington in 1789; commanded a company of Lexington riflemen in Gen. Wilkinson's expedition against the Indians in 1791; was the first Secretary of State of Kentucky, under Gov. Shelby; removed to Frankfort, Ky., when the government was established there; moved to New Orleans; was twice elected to Congress from Louisiana; otherwise figured prominently in it affairs; was Minister to France from 1823 to 1829; residing in the city of Paris; was a diplomatist of ability; was admired for his great hospitality, legal attainments, and learning, and died suddenly in Philadelphia, April 7, 1835. He was contemporary with Henry Clay, and was his brother-in-law, both marrying daughters of Thomas Hart. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/bios/gbs134brown.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/