A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represented District 15, which included portions of Benton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Sherburne and Wright counties in the central part of the state.
The district also included the trust lands of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and Grand Casino Mille Lacs.
Brown grew up in Mount Auburn-La-Porte City, Iowa, and later attended Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, graduating in 1983 with a B.A.
[1][2] Dave Brown works for UnitedHealth Group in Austin, Texas.
Preceding his insurance career, he worked with Word Entertainment, a major Christian music company based in Nashville, Tennessee.