==Political life==
Brown served as an at-large Caddo Parish delegate during his House career. By the time he declined to seek a seventh term in 1972, single-member districts were instituted in all Louisiana legislative races. In the 1964 [[general election]], Brown ran third for the five available seats but was outdistanced by [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidates [[Morley Hudson]] and [[Taylor Walters W. O'Hearn (1907-1997)]]. Joining Brown in the delegation were veteran [[Frank Fulco]] and newcomer [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], later a four-term [[United States Senator]]. Brown was not pleased at finishing behind two Republican beneficiaries of [[Charlton Lyons]], who was waging the first well-organized GOP campaign for governor since [[Reconstruction]]. The sixth-place candidate, narrowly eliminated in the competition by Johnston, was Wellborn Jack, Sr. (1907-1991), a Shreveport attorney who had served in the House for the preceding twenty-four years. A second Democrat voted out in the temporary Republican sweep of Caddo Parish was [[Jasper K. Smith]] of Vivian.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' March 4, 1964.</ref>
Brown co-sponsored the 1960 bill creating the ten-member Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities, modeled after the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfk-online.com/jpsorigluac.html#top|publisher=Jerry P. Shinley Archive|title=Origins of Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee (LUAC)|date=July 16, 1998|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref> The stated purpose of the committee was to investigate "[[communist]] and [[socialist]] activities" within Louisiana.<ref>''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' May 19, 1960, Section 1, p. 4.</ref> The bill achieved final approval but only after the state Senate amended it to require that the committee act through the office of the state attorney general, then [[Jack P. F. Gremillion]], to enforce contempt actions.<ref>''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' June 14, 1960; Section 3, p. 1.</ref>
In the 1966 legislative session, Brown opposed the establishment of 60-day annual legislative session, which he claimed would "mean just that many more bad bills we'd have to kill." Brown proposed a second deputy voter registrar for Caddo Parish because of federal intervention in the registration process, which began through the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]]. He advocated the adoption of a new criminal code for Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/2266|title=Legislators support med bonds|publisher=''Shreveport Journal''|author=Harry Taylor|date=May 1966|accessdate=October 25, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref>
==Death==