William Denis Brown, III
| William Denis "Billy" Brown III | |
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| Louisiana State Senator for Ouachita, Lincoln, and Morehouse parishes (subsequently District 35) | |
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In office 1968–1976 |
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| Preceded by | Jamar Adcock |
| Succeeded by | H. Lawrence Gibbs |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 20, 1931 Louisiana |
| Died | March 6, 2012 (aged 80) Monroe, Ouachita Parish Louisiana |
| Cause of death | Alzheimer's disease |
| Resting place | Cuba Farm near Monroe |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor H. Brown (surviving spouse) |
| Children |
William Denis Brown, IV |
| Residence | Monroe, Louisiana |
| Alma mater |
Lake Providence High School |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Businessman |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Battles/wars | Fort Benning, Georgia (1955–1957) |
November 20, 1931
Vicksburg, Warren County
Mississippi, USA Reared near Lake Providence
William Denis Brown, IV
Priscilla Brown O'Quinn
Lake Providence High School
Kentucky Military Institute Louisiana State University
William Denis Brown III (November 20, 1931 – March 6, 2012), known as Billy Brown, was a Democratic lawyer and businessman from Monroe, Louisiana, who was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1968 to 1976.
Brown's grandfather, the first William Denis Brown, was born in 1876 in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana, where he managed a sugar plantation. He came to East Carroll Parish at the invitation of an uncle, who was a levee contractor. Brown, I, married into an East Carroll plantation family and founded Providence Drug Company in the parish seat of Lake Providence. In 1907, he purchased Gossypia Plantation. In 1932, he became president of the First National Bank of Lake Providence, by which time he owned ten thousand acres of land.
Brown was born in a hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi, but reared at Panola Plantation, the northern East Carroll Parish farm of his parents, Denis II, and Martha Brown. He considered Lake Providence to be his hometown. As a child, he was involved in many activities on the plantation and in town. The plantation, located on a small railroad crossing along U.S. Highway 65 North was worked by tenant farmers and during part of World War II German prisoners of war. In 1948, Brown graduated as the valedictorian of Lake Providence High School, where he had also played for the Panthers football team. At the age of seventeen, he left Lake Providence by train to attend a post-graduate year at the since defunct Kentucky Military Institute in Lyndon, Kentucky.
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