Ellison Brown, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ellison Brown

American distance runner

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1914

Date of Death: 23-Aug-1975

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ellison Myers Brown Sr (September 12, 1913 – August 23, 1975), widely known as Tarzan Brown, is a member and a direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Narragansett indian Tribe of rhode island , also known as Deerfoot amongst his people, was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon, in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51).
He also participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
He was scheduled to participate in the 1940 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but these were canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.
Tarzan Brown is still one of only two Native Americans to have won the Boston Marathon (the other being Thomas Longboat of the Onondaga Nation from Canada, in 1907) and the only Native American to have more than one victory in Boston.
He was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973. Brown set the American men's record for the marathon at the 1939 Boston Marathon (2:28:51) and at a 1940 marathon in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts (2:27:30).