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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...
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...
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).
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.
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.
Feb 10, 1989 · On this day in 1989, Ron Brown, a former official of the National Urban League, was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to hold the top ...
