Brown was born in
St. Ignace, Michigan and attended the public schools there. He attended the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated from
Albion College in
Albion, Michigan in 1911. He studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1914 and commenced practice in St. Ignace.
Personal life Brown married Marion Walker in 1916. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1942.
After Congress In December 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the
Office of Price Administration, replacing
Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections. and was the city attorney for St. Ignace for 50 years. Paul Walker Brown was a member of the
Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1971 until 1994, and ran unsuccessfully for
lieutenant governor in 1974. His import was so great that his visage was placed on a special memorial
bridge token created by the Mackinac Bridge Authority. • In 2004,
Albion College renamed its Honors Institute the
Prentiss M. Brown Honors Institute in memory of the 1911 alumnus. • Between 1976 and 2001, the stretch of
Interstate 75 between the
Mackinac Bridge and
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was known as the Prentiss M. Brown Memorial Highway. Since 2001, the Prentiss M. Brown Memorial Highway is designated as the name of I-75 in
Mackinac County on the north side of the Mackinac Bridge. • He is prominently featured in the PBS documentary "Building the Mighty Mac" by LA filmmaker Mark Howell. == References ==