Robert Brown

Democratic Republican Representative of Pennsylvania's 6th district

  • Representative

    Pennsylvania, district 6

    May 24, 1813 - March 3, 1815

9

Congresses Served

9

House Terms

December 25, 1744 (78 years old)

Birthday

February 26, 1823

Death

  • Born in Weaversville, East Allen Township, Pennsylvania
  • Attended common schools and was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade
  • Commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Pennsylvania “Flying Camp” during the American Revolutionary War
  • Captured at the surrender of Fort Washington in 1776 and imprisoned in New York City
  • Worked at his trade while a prisoner and was paroled in 1777
  • Served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1783 to 1787
  • Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1798 to 1815
  • Represented Pennsylvania’s 4th, 2nd, and 6th congressional districts during his tenure in Congress
  • Did not seek renomination in 1814 and retired to his farm
  • Died near Weaversville, Pennsylvania, in 1823 and is buried in Horner’s Cemetery in East Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania