Forbes Harris Brown
Prohibition
Date | Party | Office | Votes | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
06-27-1933 | Prohibition | Delegate | 318657 | Loss |
Candidate Biography:
Born: December 25, 1872 in Neosho, Missouri
Married: Ida Roberta Hodges (m. 1902)
Children: Sara Bernice, Beverly Jeffris, and Eliot Edgar
Died: September 19, 1960 in Oakland, CA
- Brown was a boyhood friend of George Washington Carver, the inventor of peanut butter. Carver and Brown (born eight years apart) grew up on adjoining plantations.