George M. Brown (judge)

From 1894 until 1896 George Brown was the district attorney for Oregon’s 2nd district while headquartered in Roseburg.^[1] He was then reelected and continued in that position until 1908.^[1] In 1914, Brown was elected as Oregon's Attorney General as a Republican with his term beginning on January 4, 1915.^[2] In this role he represented the state along with John O. Bailey in the United States Supreme Court case of Bunting v. Oregon that upheld an Oregon law in a landmark decision regulating the maximum number of hours an employer could work an employee.^{[citation needed]} He was reelected in 1918 and continued as attorney general until October 14, 1920, when he resigned the position.^[2]

Also on October 14, Oregon Governor Ben W. Olcott appointed Brown to the state supreme court bench after Alfred S. Bennett resigned from the court.^[3][4] That same year he won election to a full six-year term on the bench.^[4] In 1926, Brown won reelection and then left the court at the end of that term in 1933.^[4]

In 1895 Brown married Bertha Bellows.^[1] The Browns had three children.^[1] George M. Brown died on June 18, 1934, at the age of 70.^[1]