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was openly anti prohibition. Pinchot was a prohibitionist who in his previous term as governor did almost nothing to enforce Prohibition, and so ended up attracting strong anti-prohibition support against Brown and Phillips, winning the primary by 20,000 votes over Brown, and later the state
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Brown was an avid yachtsman, and served as commodore of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. He owned and worked part-time on a farm on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. He once owned a camp along Lake Placid.
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In 1883, he married Elizabeth Hamm. They had two children, one son and one daughter. The son, Francis Shunk Brown Jr., would serve as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
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The family moved to Delaware when Brown was still very young. Brown attended schools in Philadelphia and Delaware. He graduated from the
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In 1915, he was appointed state Attorney General and served until 1919. After completing his term, he returned to private practice.
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as a Pennsylvania representative before Brown was born. Brown's mother was Elizabeth Shunk. Her father was former state governor
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Smull, John Augustus; Smull, William P.; Cochran, Thomas Baumgardner; Harry Baker, W. (1918).
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Ruling Suburbia: John J. McClure and the Republican Machine in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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from 1915 to 1919 and ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Governor in 1930.
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in 1879. He was admitted to the bar immediately. Brown was a member of the
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Carlisle Bargeron (1930-10-30). "Pennsylvania is in Turmoil over Pinchot".
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He died in Philadelphia and is interred at the Westminster Cemetery in
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In 1930, he was persuaded by state Republican party leaders including
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His law practice clients included many Pennsylvania politicians
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During the primary, in contrast to the other candidates (
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and her maternal grandfather was former state governor
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to run in the primary against former state governor
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Pennsylvania Attorney General
Martin Grove Brumbaugh
John C. Bell
William I. Schaffer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Overbrook
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Attorney General
Charles Brown
U.S. Congress
Francis R. Shunk
William Findlay
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Five O'Clock Club of Philadelphia
Israel Wilson Durham
Boies Penrose
William Scott Vare
Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 1930
William Scott Vare
Gifford Pinchot
Volstead Act
President Herbert Hoover
Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr.
Gifford Pinchot
Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr.
Joseph R. Grundy
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

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