James Stephens Brown

American politician (1858–1946)

James Stephen Brown Jr. (July 6, 1858 – January 6, 1946) was an American Democratic politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, from 1906 to 1910.

Brown was born in Paris, Tennessee on July 6, 1858.^[1] He attended the University of Tennessee before entering the United States Naval Academy in September 1875.^[2]^[3] Brown graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880.^[2]

Career

Brown served aboard USS Tennessee and USS Lancaster. He was part of the U.S. delegation at the coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in May 1883.^[2]

Brown resigned his commission as an ensign in February 1889 and became a lawyer in Nashville, joining the firm of Champion, Head, and Brown.^[2]^[3]^[4]

During the Spanish–American War, Brown returned to active duty as a lieutenant junior grade from May to October 1898.^[3]^[5]

Brown served as Mayor of Nashville from 1906 to 1910.^[4]^[6] He subsequently moved to Memphis.^[4]

Personal life and death

Brown was married to Madeline Pattie McComb on November 6, 1895.^[5] They had three children: James S. Brown, III, Worthington Brown, and Berta Brown Radford.^[5] He was Presbyterian.^[4]

Brown died on January 6, 1946, at his home in Memphis.^[4]^[6] He was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.^[4]

References

↑ "James Stephen Brown". Certificate of Death. No. 1538. Department of Public Health, State of Tennessee, Division of Vital Statistics. January 7, 1946.
1 2 3 4 The University of Tennessee Record. University of Tennessee. 1898. p. 178. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
1 2 3 List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps, from 1775 to 1900: Comprising a Complete Register of All Present and Former Commissioned, Warranted, and Appointed Officers of the United States Navy, and of the Marine Corps, Regular and Volunteer. Comp. from the Official Records of the Navy Department. L. R. Hamersly & Company. 1901. p. 82. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "J.S. Brown, Ex-Mayor of Nashville, Dies". The Tennessean. January 7, 1946. p. 14. Retrieved June 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
1 2 3 "Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN". Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
1 2 "Brown, Former Nashville Mayor, Dies". The Jackson Sun. January 7, 1946. p. 9. Retrieved June 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Owen Morris	Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee 1908–1909	Succeeded by Hilary Ewing Howse

v t e Mayors of Nashville
Pre-consolidation (1806–1963)	J. Coleman Bradford Tait Elliston Cantrell Baker Robertson Crutcher Condon Erwin Currey R. McGavock Tannehill Robertson Armstrong Bass Erwin William Nichol H. Hollingsworth Trabue Stout T. Coleman Maxey Smith Goodlett Allison Lea Smith Horn Shapard Castleman Anderson McEwen R.W. McGavock S. Hollingsworth Cheatham Smith William Matt Brown Alden Bass Morris Kercheval Howell Kercheval Phillips Kercheval McCarver Litterer Guild McCarthey Dudley Head Williams Morris Brown Howse Ewing Gupton Wilson Sharpe Howse Cummings West
Metropolitan government (1963–present)	B. Briley Fulton Boner Bredesen Purcell Dean Barry D. Briley Cooper O'Connell
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