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HENRY B. BROWN
was born in South Lee, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1836.
After graduation from Yale College in 1856, he studied
abroad for one year. Upon his return to New England, Brown
began reading law in Ellington, Connecticut, and then
pursued further studies at the law schools of Yale and
Harvard. In 1859, at the age of twenty-three, Brown moved
to Detroit, Michigan, and was admitted to the bar. He
then established a law practice and developed a speciality
in maritime law. In the first year of his practice, Brown
was appointed a Deputy United States Marshal for Detroit.
Three years later, he was appointed an Assistant United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Brown also held an interim appointment as Circuit Judge
for Wayne County in 1868. In 1875, President Ulysses S.
Grant appointed Brown to the United States District Court
for Eastern Michigan, where he served for fourteen years.
President Benjamin Harrison nominated Brown to the Supreme
Court of the United States on December 23, 1890, and the
Senate confirmed the appointment six days later. Brown
retired from the Supreme Court on May 28, 1906, and died
on September 4, 19113, at the age of seventy-seven.
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