Arthur Brown (U.S. senator)

Arthur Brown
United States Senator from Utah
In office January 22, 1896 – March 4, 1897
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Joseph L. Rawlins
Personal details
Born	(1843-03-08)March 8, 1843 Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
Died	December 12, 1906(1906-12-12) (aged 63) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	LC Brown (div.) Isabel Cameron
Children	Alice Max
Alma mater	Antioch College University of Michigan Law School

Arthur Brown (March 8, 1843 – December 12, 1906) was a United States Senator from Utah.

Early life[]

Isabel Cameron

Arthur Brown was born March 8, 1843, on a farm near Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. When he was thirteen the family moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio so his sisters could attend Antioch College, the first to admit women on the same basis as men.[2] Henry also attended the college, graduating in 1862. He pursued graduate work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and graduated from the law department in 1864. Brown practiced law in Kalamazoo, where he built a large and successful practice. He was also active politically, though he never held office despite several tries to secure the nomination for prosecuting attorney of the city.[3]

Career[]

In 1879, he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, in hopes of being appointed U.S. district attorney for the territory. Failing to do so, he instead set up a private law practice.

Nearing forty and a successful attorney, Brown joined the Republican Party and rose through its ranks. In 1896 the predominantly Republican Legislature elected him and Frank J. Cannon as Utah's first U.S. senators, an office sought by many prominent men as it was the great political prize of statehood. Brown drew the short term, serving in the Senate from January 22, 1896 until March 4, 1897. He was not a candidate for renomination and resumed the practice of law in Salt Lake City.

Brown was also the second cousin of future President Calvin Coolidge^[1] and a member of the Phillips Congregational Church, in Salt Lake City.

Death[]

Brown was married to L. C. Brown and had one child Alice.

Arthur Brown then became enamored with Isabel Cameron who he married after separating from L.C. Brown and Isabel had one son, Max.

Brown then met Anne Maddison Bradley and became lovers. Isabel hired a detective and charged Brown and they were jailed more than once for adultery.

On December 8, 1906, Brown was shot in Washington, D.C., by his longtime mistress, Anne Maddison Bradley, who claimed to be the mother of his children.

Bradley found love letters to Brown from Asenath Ann "Annie" Adams Kiskadden (an actress who was the mother of actress Maude Adams). Bradley assumed Brown was having a second affair with Kiskadden, confronted him at The Raleigh Hotel on 12th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue. That night on December 8, 1906 she shot him. Brown died from his wounds four days later, at age 63, and was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City.^[2]

At trial, it was revealed that Brown's will renounced Bradley and the two sons she claimed he sired, and a sympathetic jury acquitted her due to temporary insanity. ^[3]

Brown's murder was featured in an episode of Deadly Women, entitled "Ruthless Revenge".

References[]

External links[]

• United States Congress. "Arthur Brown (id: B000902)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Shooting of Arthur Brown Utah History To-Go