[2] He graduated from Kansas City School of Law in 1899, and worked as a dentist, thus earning the moniker "Doc" Brown.

[4] When Brown left to attend the 1924 Democratic National Convention, he appointed city council member Bertha Knight Landes as acting mayor.

Landes began her own law and order campaign, firing Police Chief William B. Severyns for corruption and closing down lotteries, punchboards and speakeasies.

Upon his return, Brown reinstated the police chief.

He died on July 28, 1941, at the age of 76, of a heart attack.