Lewis H. Brown
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Born in Creston, Iowa on February 13, 1894, Lewis Harold Brown became a passionate and highly respected industrialist. He attended the University of Iowa in 1915.
Lewis H. Brown served in France as an infantry captain during World War I. After the war, Brown worked for Montgomery Ward and was promoted to Assistant General Operating Manager in only eight years.
When T.F. Merseles, the President of Montgomery Ward, left in 1928 to become President of the Johns-Manville Corporation, an asbestos manufacturer in the United States, he took Lewis H. Brown with him. In 1930, Merseles died suddenly and Lewis H. Brown was appointed President at age 35 -- the youngest man ever to hold that position in the company's history.
On April 3, 1939, Lewis H. Brown was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, with the caption "Businessman Brown -- Public Relations Begins at Home."
During World War II, Lewis H. Brown served as an advisor to General Levin Campbell.
After World War II, at the request of General Lucius D. Clay, Lewis H. Brown wrote a book entitled "A Report on Germany" (Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1947), which served as a detailed recommendation for the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and served as a basis for the Marshall Plan. General Clay selected Lewis H. Brown to write "A Report on Germany" because of Brown's broad industrial and war experience.
Lewis H. Brown founded the American Enterprise Institute ("AEI"), a think tank in Washington, DC. Lewis H. Brown also co-founded Tax Foundation, and served as Chairman.
Lewis H. Brown died in 1951 at age 57, in Delray, Florida.
