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John Brown Brooke
| Birth | 2 MAR 1826 | |||
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| Occup | 1858-1861 |  | ||
| Org. | 1867 | |||
| Death | 22 DEC 1905 | |||
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Judge John Brown Brooke, second son of John Brown Brooke, Sr., and his wife, Araminta (Carroll) Brooke, was born near Upper Marlborough in 1826. Educated at Georgetown College, studied law and was admitted to practice at Upper Marlborough before he was twenty-one years of age. Like his father, be early entered the field of politics; was elected to the House of Delegates, and then to the State Senate.
In 1861 was elected president of the latter body, being the youngest man who had ever held that high position in Maryland. Sympathizing with the South, he was in favor of the State seceding from the Union, and was arrested with other members of the Legislature by Governor Hicks. He then went South where he remained until after the war, when he... Read More
