William Ripley Brown
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 3rd district
In office March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877
Preceded by	District created
Succeeded by	Thomas Ryan
Personal details
Born	(1840-07-16)July 16, 1840 Buffalo, New York
Died	March 3, 1916(1916-03-03) (aged 75) Kansas City, Missouri
Political party	Republican

William Ripley Brown (July 16, 1840 – March 3, 1916) was a U.S. representative from Kansas.

Born in Buffalo, New York to Mary (Ripley) and John Stillman Brown, a teacher and Unitarian minister and later Kansas resident, William Ripley Brown studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, as his father had done. Like his father again, William went on to attend and graduate Phi Beta Kappa, from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1862. He went immediately to Kansas and settled in Emporia. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Emporia. He was a judge of the ninth judicial district of Kansas in 1867-1877.

Brown was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876. He resumed the practice of law in Hutchinson, Kansas. He was the register of the United States land office in Larned, Kansas, from 1883 to 1885. He moved to El Reno, Oklahoma, in 1892 and was a probate judge of Canadian County in 1894-1898. He died in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1916, and was interred in Lawrence Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.

• United States Congress. "William Ripley Brown (id: B000951)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas
1st district	Phillips Anderson Morrill Broderick Curtis Anthony Lambertson Cole H. Miller Avery Dole Sebelius Roberts Moran Huelskamp Marshall Mann
2nd district	Goodin Haskell Funston H. Moore O. Miller M. Peters Bowersock Scott Mitchell Taggart E. Little Guyer C. Little Guyer Scrivner N. George Ellsworth Avery Mize Roy Keys Jeffries Slattery Brownback Ryun Boyda Jenkins Watkins LaTurner
3rd district	Brown Ryan Perkins Clover Hudson Kirkpatrick Ridgely A. Jackson Campbell Sproul McGugin Patterson Winter Meyer M. George Hargis McVey Ellsworth Winn Meyers Snowbarger D. Moore Yoder Davids
4th district	Ryan Kelley Otis Curtis J. Miller F. Jackson Doolittle Hoch Carpenter E. Rees Shriver Glickman Tiahrt Pompeo Estes
5th district	Anderson Davis Calderhead Vincent Calderhead R. Rees Helvering Strong Ayres Houston Hope Breeding Skubitz Whittaker Nichols
6th district	Hanback Turner Baker McCormick Reeder Young Connelly White Sparks McCarthy Carlson Smith Dole
7th district	S. Peters Simpson Long Simpson Long Murdock Madison Neeley Shouse Tincher Hope
8th district	Murdock Ayres Bird Ayres
At-large	Conway Wilder Clarke Lowe (1873–1875: Lowe Cobb Phillips) (1883–1885: Hanback Morrill Perkins S. Peters) Harris Blue Botkin Bailey Scott
Territory	Whitfield Parrott

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