Brown, Ronald Harmon, 1941-1996

found: U.S. Cong. Senate. Comm. on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Nomination of Ronald Harmon Brown to be secretary of commerce, 1993:t.p. (Ronald Harmon Brown) p. 10 (b. Aug. 1, 1941)

found: Washington post, 4 April 1996:p. C 1 (age 54; killed in a plane crash on a mountainside in Croatia, Apr. 3, 1996) p. C 5 (Commerce Secretary Ron Brown)

found: Memorial tributes delivered in Congress, 1997:t.p. (Ronald H. Brown) p. xi, etc. (Ron Brown; Juris Dr. degree in 1970, St. John's Univ.)

found: African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Brown, Ron; Ronald Harmon Brown; political figure, secretary of commerce; born 01 August 1941 in Washington, D. C., United States; BA in Political Science, Middlebury College, Vermont (1962); promoted to captain, U.S. Army, served in Germany and Korea; left the service in 1967; graduated from St. John's University Law School in New York (1970); general counsel of the National Urban League (1971); director of NUL's Washington bureau (1973); district leader of Democratic party in Westchester County, New York (1971); deputy manager of Senator Edward Kennedy's presidential campaign (1980); chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee; lawyer (1981)and partner (1987) at Patton, Boggs and Blow; general counsel to Democratic National Committee (DNC) (1981); served as director of convention affairs for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign (1988); became DNC chairman (1989); appointed as Secretary of Commerce (1993); while on a trade mission to Dubrovnik, Croatia, a plane carrying him crashed in the mountains of Bosnia (1996); died 03 April 1996 in Bosnia)