Walter B. Brown

A Democrat, he was born in Smallwood, Fairfield County, South Carolina, May 16, 1920 as the son of Boyd and Mary (Tidwell) Brown. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives;^[1] a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1960, 1964, 1968;^[2] the first director of South Carolina Department of General Services (now Budget and Control Board);^[1] the vice-president for government affairs of Norfolk Southern Corporation (formerly Southern Railway);^[1] the first Trustee Emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina. Presbyterian.^[2]

He died in Fairfield County, South Carolina, on March 9, 1998. The Walter Boyd Brown Industrial Park in Fairfield County was named for him.^[1]

He was the grandfather of Representative H. Boyd Brown, a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.^{[citation needed]}