William L. Brown (politician)

William Lee Brown (December 25, 1840 Vermont – December 13, 1906 Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts) was an American newspaper publisher and politician from Ohio and New York.

The family removed to Mahoning County, Ohio, soon after William was born.

After the war, he removed to Virginia City, then the capital of the Montana Territory.

He was Chief Clerk of the Territorial Legislature, and also engaged in gold mining.

After the death of Benjamin Wood in 1900, his widow Ida Wood ousted Brown from the management of the paper, and Brown retired to an estate in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he engaged in horse and cattle breeding.