George M. Brown

George M. Brown (1864-1934) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 50th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and the 5th attorney general of the state from 1915 to 1920. An Oregon born and educated attorney, he previously worked as a district attorney in Southern Oregon. George Brown was born on May 5, 1864 in Southern Oregon’s Douglas County. His parents Thomas Brown and Sarah Fleet Brown immigrated to Oregon Country in 1847. In Oregon, George was educated in the local schools before attending and graduating from Umpqua Academy in 1883. He then went onto Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he graduated in 1885. After reading law in Salem, Brown passed the bar in 1891. From 1894 until...