Jason B. Brown

Jason Brevoort Brown was an American lawyer and politician from Indiana. A Democrat for most of his career, he served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 3rd congressional district from 1889 to 1895, and chaired the House Committee on Elections during the Fifty-third Congress. Earlier in his career he served in both houses of the Indiana General Assembly, where as a wartime legislator he initiated and led the Indiana House's 1863 investigation into arbitrary military arrests of civilians. After breaking with the Democratic Party in 1872, he was appointed Secretary of Wyoming Territory by President Ulysses S. Grant, serving from 1873 to 1875.