OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Walter Folger Brown

BORN:
May 31, 1869;
Massillon, Ohio

DIED:
January 26, 1961 (age 91);
Toledo, Ohio

EDUCATION:
Harvard University
Harvard Law School

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican
Progressive (1918)

HIGHLIGHTS:
1906-1912:
Chairman, Ohio Republican Party
1912:
Organized Ohio Progressive Party for Theodore Roosevelt
1921:
Accepted Chairmanship of Joint Congressional Reorganization Committee
1927-1929:
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
1929-1933:
U.S. Postmaster General

PORTRAIT:

RESOURCES:

Herbert Hoover about to toss out the first ball at opening of baseball season, Washington, D.C. With him are Mrs. Walter F. Brown, Postmaster General Brown, Mrs. William D. Mitchell, Mrs. Charles F. Adams, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Walter Johnson, manager of the Senators, and Mrs. Ogden Mills. (Library of Congress)

BIOGRAPHIES:
UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia
U.S. House of Representatives

OBITUARY:
New York Times