Algie D. Brown

Who was Algie D. Brown?

Algie Dee Brown was a Shreveport attorney and from 1948 to 1972 a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served under Governors Earl Kemp Long, Robert F. Kennon, Jimmie Davis, and John J. McKeithen. His interest in politics began in the early 1930s when he heard the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. give a stem-winding speech in Shreveport.

Brown served as an at-large Caddo Parish delegate during his House career. By the time he declined to seek a seventh term in 1972, single-member districts were instituted in Louisiana legislative races. In the 1964 general election, Brown ran third for the five available seats but was outdistanced by Republican candidates Morley Hudson and Taylor O'Hearn. Joining Brown in the delegation were Frank Fulco and newcomer J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., later a United States senator. Brown was not pleased at finishing behind two Republican beneficiaries of Charlton Lyons, who was waging the first well-organized GOP campaign for governor since Reconstruction. The sixth-place candidate, narrowly eliminated in the competition by Johnston, was Wellborn Jack, a Shreveport attorney, who had served in the House for the preceding twenty-four years.