John Young Brown (February 1, 1900 – June 16, 1985) was an American attorney and politician.

degree in 1921 where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and a "Scrub" player on the famous Centre Praying Colonels football team.

degree from University of Kentucky College of Law[2] in 1926 and was admitted to the bar that same year.

He was noted for his extensive quotation of the Bible from memory during his summations to juries and his representation of coal miners.

He won the Senate nomination in 1946 over Phil Ardery but lost the general election to Republican John Sherman Cooper.

Their daughter Pamela died in 1970 in an ill-fated attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon dubbed "The Free Life."

Brown died of pneumonia in Louisville, six months after being paralyzed from the waist down in an automobile accident.