From 2012 to 2017, when he resigned his seat in scandal, Brown represented District 2, which includes parts of Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. James, and West Baton Rouge parishes.
Brown received his associate and bachelor's degrees from historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge, at which he majored in criminal justice.
The attack allegedly occurred while the woman, a resident of Labadieville in Assumption Parish, a "side friend" (his term) with whom he had been involved for a decade, was outside an elevator, along with other people, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Brown told deputies of the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office that because of the brain injury he had no recollection of biting his wife.
[9] Prior to his resignation, Brown told an interviewer that it was his "gut feel" that "it's pretty obvious that the Senate is going to vote for expulsion.
His latest attorney, Jill Craft of Baton Rouge, referred to the Senate's consideration of expulsion as "a dog and pony show" without proper rules of legal fairness.
[11] Democrats Warren Harang, III, a sugar cane farmer from Donaldsonville whose late father was a mayor of Thibodaux, and Ed Price, the District 58 member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Gonzales, were the top finishers in a 13-candidate field to choose Brown's successor in the state Senate.