[1] Brown later expanded into other businesses, owning an Allstate insurance agency and two Jacksonville, North Carolina radio stations.

[5] Brown first ran for the North Carolina House as a Democrat in 2002, losing by 61 votes in the primary election.

[2] Brown subsequently switched to the Republican Party and in 2004 defeated Democratic incumbent Cecil Hargett.

[6] Staunchly conservative, Brown opposed the creation of the North Carolina Lottery in 2005, which passed on a close vote.

[7] In 2017 Brown, in an attempt to increase funding in rural communities, proposed legislation to modify the distribution of state spending from sales tax revenue by allocating more of the money to the areas where the customers lived instead of where the businesses they shopped at were located.