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Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton . Before this, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Apr 3, 1996 · On this day in 1996, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed, along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43 plane crashed...
Apr 26, 2024 · Ron Brown (born August 1, 1941, Washington, D.C.—died April 3, 1996, near Dubrovnik, Croatia) was an American politician, the first African American to be chairman (1989–93) of a major U.S. political party and the first to be appointed secretary of commerce (1993–96).
Feb 9, 2010 · Ronald H. Brown, the U.S. secretary of commerce, is killed along with 32 other Americans when their U.S. Air Force plane crashes into a mountain near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Brown was leading a...
Jun 11, 2018 · Ron Brown made history in 1989 when he became the first African American chosen to lead a major U.S. political party. From 1989 through 1992, Brown served as the highly visible deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Feb 10, 2024 · Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first Black American to lead a major political party in U.S. history. Brown was a descendant of Mississippi Reconstruction lawmaker Eugene B. Welborne, who had to flee the state to avoid being killed.
Apr 3, 2012 · Sixteen years ago today, a plane crash took the lives of Secretary Ron Brown, 11 Commerce employees, and 23 other U.S. and Croatian citizens, during a trade mission to Croatia.
Apr 3, 2021 · Twenty-five years ago today, former Secretary Ron Brown perished in a fatal plane crash in Dubrovnik, Croatia that also took the lives of 32 other Americans, including eleven Commerce employees.
Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash in April 1996, was far from being the first Commerce Secretary to be accused of using his job to pressure American businesses for political...
Apr 28, 1996 · Seconds later the plane slammed into the peak and exploded, killing all 35 people aboard, including Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown. It was 98 feet shy of clearing the summit.
