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2972 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSup a very satisfying practice, and also served from 1885 to 1889 as solicitorgeneral of the Western Judicial Circuit, and in 3890 was elected mayor ofthe City of Athens, an office he held for one term of two years. 'In 1899, seeking a broader field for his talents, Mr. Brown removed toAtlanta, and that city has continued to be his home and the headquarters ofhis professional activities. Shortly after his arrival he became state's attorneyfor the Western & Atlantic Railroad, a capacity in which he acted from 1899until 3903. Since then his practice has continued to grow and develop andhas involved his appearance in numerous prominent cases litigated in thestate and federal courts. He is now district attorney for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, and is a senior member of the law firm ofBrown & Randolph, Parker & Scott. This firm is division counsel for theSeaboard Air Line Railway, general counsel for the Atlanta Savings Bank,and represents numerous other corporations in Atlanta and elsewhere. Theoffices of the firm are in the Brown-Randolph Building. Mr. Brown is deputyfederal reserve agent and deputy chairman of the board of directors of theFederal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.From early manhood he has been a stalwart democrat. From 1900 to 1904he served in the capacity of chairman of the Democratic State Committee.While still influential in the party, the pressing and constantly broadeningduties of his profession have in recent years caused him to retire somewhatfrom active leadership in party affairs, although ever ready to assist the causein any manner that lies within his power. He is a member of the AmericanBar Association and the Georgia Bar Association, and his fraternal connections include membership in the Masons, the Independent Order of OddFellows and the Improved Order of Red Men. Socially he is identified withthe Capital City Club, the Piedmont Driving Club, the' Druid Hill Golf Cluband the Atlanta Athletic Club. With his family he attends the PresbyterianChurch.While a resident of Athens July 32, 1887, Mr. Brown was married to MissMary Celestine Mitchell, daughter of Henry S. and Delila (Yale) Mitchell, ofNorwalk, Ohio. To this union have been born three children: Edward Mitchell,Marjorie and Henry Warren. The family home is at 968 Peachtree Street,Atlanta.The preceding is a brief outline of the more important facts that are tobe considered in a biographical sketch. It is, however, insufficient and inadequate as a description of Mr. Brown's valuable influence and work in his profession and in the public affairs of Georgia. In order that this publicationmay not fail to give a better estimate of this influence and work the followingparagraphs have been secured from the pen of one who has known Mr. Brownfrom his first admission to the bar and has watched his splendid career withpride and gratification.'' No one man in Georgia has done more or better work for the cause oforganized democracy than E. T. Brown, and this characterizes his entire lifesince a young man. In the memorable fight to redeem several congressionaldistricts in our State from independentism he was found in the forefront ofbattle, and it is recognized that in the defeat of Emory Speer and the electionof Alien D. Candler, the services rendered by Mr. Brown to his party werenot only great but inestimable. And in every contest since that day, whereloyalty to party and untiring work for its success were demanded, Mr. Brownhas unsparingly given his time, his talent and his means to win a triumph."But perhaps the most important and valuable service that E. T. Brownhas ever rendered his country and his party was the aid he rendered not onlyin his own state but throughout the South to secure the nomination and election of Woodrow Wilson. It is a recognized fact that it was largely throughhis efforts that the people of the South, in the campaign of 1912, were aroused