George M. Brown (judge)

George M. Brown (May 5, 1864 – June 18, 1934) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon.

[1] In Oregon, George was educated in the local schools before attending and graduating from Umpqua Academy in 1883.

[1] In 1914, Brown was elected as Oregon's Attorney General as a Republican with his term beginning on January 4, 1915.

[2] In this role he represented the state along with John O. Bailey in the United States Supreme Court case of Bunting v. Oregon that upheld an Oregon law in a landmark decision regulating the maximum number of hours an employer could work an employee.

[citation needed] He was reelected in 1918 and continued as attorney general until October 14, 1920, when he resigned the position.