Lee P. Brown
| Lee Brown | |
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| 59th Mayor of Houston | |
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In office January 2, 1998 – January 2, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Lanier |
| Succeeded by | Bill White |
| Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy | |
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In office July 19, 1993 – January 1996 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Walters (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Barry McCaffrey |
| Police Commissioner of New York City | |
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In office January 22, 1990 – September 1, 1992 |
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| Appointed by | David Dinkins |
| Preceded by | Richard Condon |
| Succeeded by | Ray Kelly |
| Police Chief of Houston | |
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In office 1982–1990 |
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| Appointed by | Kathy Whitmire |
| Preceded by | B.K. Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Elizabeth Watson |
| Personal details | |
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October 4, 1937 Wewoka, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Yvonne Brown (Deceased) Frances Young |
| Education |
California State University, Fresno (BS) San Jose State University (MA) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) is an American criminologist, public administrator, politician and businessman; in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston, Texas. He was reelected twice to serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004.
He has had a long career in law enforcement and academia; leading police departments in Atlanta, Houston and New York over the course of nearly four decades. With practical experience and a doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, he has combined research and operations in his career. After serving as Public Safety Commissioner of Atlanta, Georgia, he was appointed in 1982 as the first African-American police chief in Houston, Texas, where he implemented techniques in community policing to reduce crime.
His parents, Andrew and Zelma Brown, were sharecroppers in Oklahoma, and Lee Brown was born in Wewoka. His family, including six brothers, moved to California in the second wave of the Great Migration and his parents continued as farmers. A high school athlete, Brown earned a football scholarship to Fresno State University, where he earned a B.S. in criminology in 1960. That year he started as a police officer in San Jose, California, where he served for eight years. Brown was elected as the president of the San Jose Police Officers' Association (union) and served from 1965–1966.
Brown went on to earn a master's degree in sociology from San José State University in 1964, and became an assistant professor there in 1968. He also earned a second master's degree in criminology from University of California, Berkeley in 1968. In the same year, He moved to Portland, Oregon, where he established and served as chairman of the Department of Administration of Justice at Portland State University.
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