W. K. Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

W. K. Brown

American politician

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1923

Place of Birth: Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jul-2011

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About W. K. Brown

  • William K.
  • Brown (January 7, 1923 – July 13, 2011) was from 1960 to 1972 a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Grant and Rapides parishes in Central Louisiana.
  • His service corresponded with the administrations of Governors Jimmie Davis and John J.
  • McKeithen.Brown represented only Grant Parish from 1960 to 1968, at which time each Louisiana parish had at least one representative regardless of population.
  • In his first term, he defeated in the 1959 primary election his fellow Democrat, Billy Gene "B.
  • G." Lutes (1931-2006) of Colfax, later a district attorney and state court judge.
  • In his final term from 1968 to 1972, however, Brown was paired with colleagues T.
  • C.
  • Brister, R.
  • W.
  • "Buzzy" Graham, and Robert J.
  • Munson, from a combined Grant-Rapides district.
  • Then single-member districts were created in 1972, Brown was succeeded in the House by Richard S.
  • Thompson of Colfax, the seat of Grant Parish.Brown was the last surviving of twelve children born to Richard Brown, Sr., and the former Irene Rhodes.
  • A native of Grant Parish, he graduated from Dry Prong High School, now Grant High School, in Dry Prong.
  • During World War II, he served in the United States Navy.
  • He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
  • After the war, Brown enrolled at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, from which he received his Bachelor of Science in 1949 and a Master of Education degree in 1956.
  • From 1960 to 1974, he owned W.
  • K.
  • Brown Insurance Agency in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish.
  • From 1974 to 1977, he headed the manpower program of the Rapides Parish Police Jury.
  • Thereafter, from 1977 to 1984, he was a special assistant to the Louisiana Superintendent of Education.Brown was still residing in Alexandria at the time of his death from Alzheimer's disease at the age of eighty-eight in a hospital there.
  • He was interred with full military honors on July 18, 2011, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball north of Pineville, Louisiana.

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