Elias Brown was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Maryland

Maryland

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Born near Baltimore, Maryland, Brown attended the common schools. He served as presidential elector on the ticket of James Monroe

James Monroe

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 and Daniel D. Tompkins

Daniel D. Tompkins

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 in 1820 and on the ticket of John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

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 and Richard Rush

Richard Rush

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 in 1828.

Brown was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first

21st United States Congress

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 Congress, where he served from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1831. He also served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Maryland House of Delegates

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 in 1834 and 1835, and as member of the Maryland Senate from 1836 to 1838. In 1836, he served as presidential elector on the ticket of William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison

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 and John Tyler

John Tyler

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, and served as delegate to the State constitutional convention the same year. He died near Baltimore, Maryland, and is interred in a private cemetery near Eldersburg, Maryland

Eldersburg, Maryland

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