Arthur Brown (American politician)

American politician

Arthur Brown (March 8, 1843December 12, 1906) was a United States Senator from Utah.

Arthur Brown was born March 8, 1843, on a farm in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. When he was thirteen the family moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he attended Antioch College, from which he graduated with a BA degree in 1862. He pursued graduate work at the University of Michigan while also attending the University of Michigan Law School, and he received a MA in 1863 and an LLB in 1864. Brown practiced law in Kalamazoo, and also became active in politics as a Republican. and a member of the Phillips Congregational Church, in Salt Lake City.

Brown was first married to Lydia Coon, with whom he had a daughter, Alice. Brown later married Isabel Cameron after separating from Lydia and with her and Isabel had one son, Max. Brown then met Anne Maddison Bradley and became lovers. Isabel hired a detective and charged Brown and they were jailed more than once for adultery. On February 4, 1903, Brown was found guilty of contempt of court in failing to comply with the Salt Lake City court's order to pay Mrs. Brown temporary alimony of $150 month. On December 8, 1906, Brown was shot in Washington, D. C., by his longtime mistress, Anne Maddison Bradley, who claimed to be the mother of his children. Bradley found love letters to Brown from Asenath Ann "Annie" Adams Kiskadden (an actress who was the mother of actress Maude Adams). Bradley assumed Brown was having a second affair with Kiskadden, confronted him at The Raleigh Hotel on 12th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue. That night on December 8, 1906, she shot him. Brown died from his wounds four days later, at age 63, and was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City. At trial, it was revealed that Brown's will renounced Bradley and the two sons she claimed he sired, and a sympathetic jury acquitted her due to temporary insanity. Brown's murder was featured in an episode of Deadly Women, entitled "Ruthless Revenge".