Brown, Ronald Harmon, 1941-1996

LC control no.	no 93026751
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brown, Ronald Harmon, 1941-1996 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Brown, Ron, 1941-1996
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19410801
Death date	19960403
Place of birth	Washington (D.C.)
Place of death	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Affiliation	Middlebury College United States. Army National Urban League St. John's University (New York, N.Y.) Patton, Boggs & Blow Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Politicians Lawyers Government employees Officials and employees
Found in	U.S. Cong. Senate. Comm. on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Nomination of Ronald Harmon Brown to be secretary of commerce, 1993: t.p. (Ronald Harmon Brown) p. 10 (b. Aug. 1, 1941) Washington post, 4 April 1996: p. C 1 (age 54; killed in a plane crash on a mountainside in Croatia, Apr. 3, 1996) p. C 5 (Commerce Secretary Ron Brown) Memorial tributes delivered in Congress, 1997: t.p. (Ronald H. Brown) p. xi, etc. (Ron Brown; Juris Dr. degree in 1970, St. John's Univ.) African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brown, Ron; Ronald Harmon Brown; political figure, secretary of commerce; born 01 August 1941 in Washington, D. C., United States; BA in Political Science, Middlebury College, Vermont (1962); promoted to captain, U.S. Army, served in Germany and Korea; left the service in 1967; graduated from St. John's University Law School in New York (1970); general counsel of the National Urban League (1971); director of NUL's Washington bureau (1973); district leader of Democratic party in Westchester County, New York (1971); deputy manager of Senator Edward Kennedy's presidential campaign (1980); chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee; lawyer (1981)and partner (1987) at Patton, Boggs and Blow; general counsel to Democratic National Committee (DNC) (1981); served as director of convention affairs for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign (1988); became DNC chairman (1989); appointed as Secretary of Commerce (1993); while on a trade mission to Dubrovnik, Croatia, a plane carrying him crashed in the mountains of Bosnia (1996); died 03 April 1996 in Bosnia)