Edmund Graves Brown

Who was Edmund Graves Brown?

Edmund Graves Brown, Jr. was an American newspaper executive and a prominent member of the Ewing newspaper family of Louisiana. In 1952, after the deaths of two Ewing brothers, John D. Ewing and Wilson Ewing, Brown joined the management of the then family-owned Monroe News Star in Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana. He remained with the News Star as an assistant general manager until 1977, when it was sold, along with the sister publication, the former Morning World, to the Gannett Company of Arlington, Virginia.

Brown was born in New Orleans to Edmund "Ted" Brown, Sr., originally of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and the former Esther Ewing. His brothers, who predeceased him, were Robert Ewing Brown and Toulmin Hunter Brown, both of Pass Christian, Mississippi, near New Orleans. He graduated from Alcee Fortier High School in New Orleans and the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. He was commissioned in the United States Army and served with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, witnessed the close of the war at Ludwigslust on the Elbe River, and served in Germany during Allied occupation.