Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown | |
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Secretary of State of Ohio | |
In office January 12, 1983 – January 14, 1991 | |
Governor | Dick Celeste |
Preceded by | Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. |
Succeeded by | Bob Taft |
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 61st district | |
In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1983 | |
Preceded by | Joan Douglass |
Succeeded by | Frank Sawyer |
Personal details | |
Born | Sherrod Campbell Brown November 9, 1952 Mansfield, Ohio, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouses | |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Charlie Brown (brother) |
Residence(s) | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Education | Yale University (BA) Ohio State University (MA, MPA) |
Occupation |
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Signature | |
Website | Senate website |
Sherrod Campbell Brown (/ˈʃɛrəd/; born November 9, 1952) is an American politician who is the senior United States senator from Ohio, a seat which he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007 and the 47th secretary of state of Ohio from 1983 to 1991. He started his political career in 1975 as a state representative.
Brown defeated two-term
Brown became the state's senior U.S. senator after the retirement of George Voinovich in 2011. Since 2011, Brown has been the only Democratic statewide elected official in Ohio, with the exception of some Democratic-affiliated Ohio Supreme Court justices elected in nonpartisan races.[3] He is widely considered a liberal, progressive, and populist Democrat.[4][5][6]
Early life, education, and academic career
Sherrod Brown was born in
In 1974, Brown received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian studies from Yale University.[10][11] While at Yale, he lived in Davenport College,[12] and he campaigned for George McGovern during the 1972 presidential election.[13] He went on to receive a Master of Arts degree in education and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Ohio State University at Columbus in 1979 and 1981, respectively.[11] He taught at Ohio State University's Mansfield branch campus from 1979 to 1981.[14]
Early political career
During his senior year in college, Brown was recruited by a local Democratic leader to run for Ohio's state house.
U.S. House of Representatives
1992 election
In 1992, Brown moved from Mansfield to Lorain, Ohio, and won a heavily contested Democratic primary for the open seat for Ohio's 13th district, in the western and southern suburbs of Cleveland, after eight-term incumbent Don Pease announced his retirement. The Democratic-leaning district gave him an easy win over the little-known Republican Margaret R. Mueller. He was reelected six times.[16]
Tenure
The Democrats lost their long-held House majority in the 1994 elections, and stayed in the minority for the remainder of Brown's tenure. As ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Health subcommittee, Brown successfully advocated for increased funding to fight tuberculosis.[13]
In 2005, Brown led the Democratic effort to block the
Brown opposed an amendment to Ohio's constitution that banned same-sex marriage.[18] He was also one of the few U.S. Representatives to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.[19]
Committee assignments
Brown was the ranking minority member on the
U.S. Senate
Elections
2006
In August 2005 Brown announced he would not run for the United States Senate seat held by two-term Republican incumbent Mike DeWine,[21] but in October he reconsidered his decision.[22] His announcement came shortly after Democrat Paul Hackett stated that he would soon announce his candidacy. On February 13, 2006, Hackett withdrew from the race, all but ensuring that Brown would win the Democratic nomination. In the May 2 primary Brown won 78.05% of the Democratic vote. His opponent, Merrill Samuel Keiser Jr., received 21.95%.[23]
In April 2006, Brown, along with
On November 7, 2006, Brown defeated DeWine, 56% to 44%.[26]
2012
Brown ran for reelection in 2012, facing opponent Josh Mandel, who in 2010 had defeated the incumbent state treasurer by 14 points. Mandel raised $2.3 million in the second quarter of 2011 alone, to Brown's $1.5 million.[27] Early on Brown enjoyed a steady lead in the polls.[28] Mandel won the March Republican primary with 63% of the vote.[29]
On November 6, 2012, Brown held his seat, winning 50.7% of the vote to Mandel's 44.7%. Independent candidate Scott Rupert received 4.6% of the vote.[32]
2018
In 2018 Brown was reelected to a third Senate term, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Jim Renacci by 6.8 points.[33]
Tenure
A staunch critic of free trade who has taken progressive stances on financial issues, Brown has said that the Democratic Party should place stronger emphasis on progressive populism.[5]
In March 2018, Brown was appointed co-chair of the newly formed
On March 11, 2020, the day the
After President Donald Trump was impeached for the first time in December 2019, Brown voted to remove him from office.[38] During the January 2020 impeachment trial, Brown said he was fine with Republicans bringing witnesses to testify so long as they allowed testimony from witnesses such as John Bolton.[39]
In January 2020, Brown called on his Senate colleagues to approve legislation that would improve the
In February 2020, Brown and other Democrats in the House voted to block two pieces of anti-abortion legislation: the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.[40] The same month, Brown introduced the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act to the Senate.[41]
In 2021, Brown pushed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to establish the National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence in Ohio.[42]
Committee assignments (118th Congress)
- Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (chair)
- As chair of the committee, Brown serves as an ex officio member on all the subcommittees.
- Committee on Finance
- Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Potential national campaigns
One of Bernie Sanders's closest allies in the U.S. Senate, Brown nevertheless endorsed Hillary Clinton and campaigned for her in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary in Ohio.[44] He was vetted as a potential vice-presidential running mate for Clinton. The choice came down to Brown and Tim Kaine, who was ultimately selected.[45] Brown had the distinct disadvantage that had Clinton won, Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich would have chosen Brown's replacement in the Senate, whereas Kaine's replacement would be chosen by Democrat and Clinton ally Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe.[46]
In May 2017
Political positions
In the 2011 National Journal's annual rankings, Brown tied with eight other members for the title of the most liberal member of Congress.[51] According to FiveThirtyEight, Brown voted with President Donald Trump's position on Congressional issues 25.8% of the time.[52] According to FiveThirtyEight, during the 117th Congress, Brown voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 98% of the time.[53]
In a 2017 issue of Dissent, Michael Kazin introduced an interview with Brown by praising him as "a politician ahead of his time" and "perhaps the most class-conscious Democrat in Washington." Brown told Kazin that many Ohioans think "people on the coasts look down on them" and blamed this notion on Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.[54]
Domestic policy
Education
In 2015, Brown introduced the Charter School Accountability Act of 2015, which sought to curb "fraud, abuse, waste, mismanagement and misconduct" in
Brown praised
Energy and environment
In 2012, Brown co-sponsored the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act,[57] a bill prohibiting the export of some electronics for environmental reasons.[58] In 2018, Trump signed Brown's Water Resources Development Act to invest in "clean water infrastructure and build or update water and sewer systems".[59]
In the wake of the
Health care
Brown supported the
In 2006, Brown co-sponsored the single-payer
In January 2019, Brown was one of six Democratic senators to introduce the American Miners Act of 2019, a bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to swap funds in excess of the amount needed to meet existing obligations under the Abandoned Mine Land fund to the 1974 Pension Plan as part of an effort to prevent its insolvency as a result of coal company bankruptcies and the 2008 financial crisis. It also increased the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund tax and ensured that miners affected by the 2018 coal company bankruptcies would not lose their health insurance.[68]
In August 2019, Brown was one of 19 senators to sign a letter to
In September 2019, amid discussions to prevent a government shutdown, Brown was one of six Democratic senators to sign a letter to congressional leadership advocating the passage of legislation that would permanently fund health care and pension benefits for retired coal miners as "families in West Virginia, Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Colorado, North Dakota and New Mexico" would start to receive notifications of health care termination by the end of the next month. In 2023, Brown publicly announced his support for the legalization of recreational cannabis.[70]
Housing
In April 2019, Brown was one of 41 senators to sign a bipartisan letter to the housing subcommittee praising the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 4 Capacity Building program as authorizing "HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education, training, and financial support to local community development corporations (CDCs) across the country" and expressing disappointment that President Trump's budget "has slated this program for elimination after decades of successful economic and community development." The senators wrote of their hope that the subcommittee would support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020.[71]
LGBT rights
Brown voted against prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting children in Washington D.C. He received a 100% score from the Human Rights Campaign in 2005–2006, indicating a pro-gay rights stance.[72][73] On December 18, 2010, he voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.[74][75]
In October 2018, Brown was one of 20 senators to sign a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to reverse the rolling back of a policy that granted visas to same-sex partners of LGBTQ diplomats who had unions that were not recognized by their home countries, writing that too many places around the world have seen LGBTQ individuals "subjected to discrimination and unspeakable violence, and receive little or no protection from the law or local authorities" and that refusing to let LGBTQ diplomats bring their partners to the US would be equivalent of upholding "the discriminatory policies of many countries around the world."[76]
Veterans
In 2014, Brown introduced the
In 2015, Brown and Representative Tim Ryan introduced legislation that would give military veterans priority in scheduling classes in colleges, universities, and other post-secondary education programs.[79]
Economic policy
In March 2019, Brown was one of six senators to sign a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that it "use its rulemaking authority, along with other tools, in order to combat the scourge of non-compete clauses rigging our economy against workers" and saying that non-compete clauses "harm employees by limiting their ability to find alternate work, which leaves them with little leverage to bargain for better wages or working conditions with their immediate employer." The senators' letter added that the FTC had the responsibility of protecting both consumers and workers and needed to "act decisively" to address their concerns over "serious anti-competitive harms from the proliferation of non-competes in the economy."[80]
Banking and finance industry
In February 2013, conservative commentator
In 2016, after the leak of the Panama Papers, Brown and Elizabeth Warren urged the Treasury Department to investigate whether U.S. citizens were involved in possible tax avoidance and misconduct associated with the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.[82]
In 2021, Brown became the chair of the Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy, after having been its ranking Democratic member since 2015. In April of that year, he initiated an inquiry into "the implosion of Archegos Capital", an investment firm that lost billions of dollars amid accusations of fraud and insider trading.[83]
Corporate PAC money
Brown has sponsored legislation to require corporate
In 2019, when Brown was considering running for president, he pledged not to take donations from corporate PACs.[85] He had accepted more than $10.4 million in PAC money from 1997 to 2018.[86] Since Brown declined to seek the presidency in 2019, his Senate campaign committee and leadership PAC have accepted over $1 million in corporate PAC donations.[87] Some of the corporate PAC money that Brown accepted came from health insurance and pharmaceutical companies that the state of Ohio is suing for allegedly illegally driving up drug prices.[88]
Employment
In 2012, Brown wrote a letter to the United States Department of Defense requesting that it comply with a rule requiring members of the military to wear clothes made in the U.S.[89]
Intellectual property
Brown was a cosponsor of the Protect-IP Act (PIPA).[90]
Stimulus spending
In 2009, Brown voted for the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He cast the 60th and final vote upon returning to Washington, DC, after his mother's funeral service.[91]
Taxes
Brown's opposition to the
In March 2018, Vice President
Trade
Brown has criticized free trade with China and other countries. In a 2006 Washington Post article, he argued against free trade on the grounds that labor activism was responsible for the growth of the U.S. middle class, and that the U.S. economy is harmed by trade relations with countries that lack the kind of labor regulations that have resulted from that activism.[94]
In 2011, the Columbus Dispatch noted that Brown "loves to rail against international trade agreements."
In May 2016, Brown called for tariffs to be imposed on imports from China and praised
Brown opposes NAFTA, which he argues should be renegotiated to aid Ohio workers.[101][73]
In January 2018, Brown supported President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on washing machine imports.[102] He supported his first trade agreement in 2019, after never having previously supported one while in Congress. He voted against the North American Free Trade Agreement because he said it would send Ohioan jobs to Mexico, but supported a new trade agreement for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada after a "step toward a pro-worker trade policy, but it's not a perfect agreement."[103]
In November 2023, pressure from Brown and other congressional Democrats led the Biden administration to abandon plans for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework's trade component.[104][105]
Foreign policy
Brown opposed the
In December 2010, Brown voted for the ratification of New START,[109] a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the U.S. and the Russian Federation obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads and 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years, and providing for a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years.[110]
In 2015, Brown co-sponsored an amendment to the budget that was unanimously approved by the Senate and that would reimpose sanctions on Iran if Iran violated the terms of the interim or final agreement by advancing its nuclear program.[111]
Brown co-sponsored reaffirmations of the
In September 2016, in advance of UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Brown signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging President Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel.[120] In February 2019, Brown voted against a controversial Israel Anti-Boycott Act initiated by Republicans[121] that would allow states to prohibit government agencies from contracting with organizations involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[122]
In June 2017, Brown criticized U.S. support for
In May 2018, Brown was one of 12 senators to sign a letter to Trump urging him not to withdraw from the
In November 2018, Brown joined Senators
In January 2019, after Juan Guaidó was declared interim President of Venezuela by the National Assembly, Brown said the U.S. should "work with our allies and use economic, political and diplomatic leverage to help bring about free and fair elections, limit escalating tension, and ensure the safety of Americans on the ground", and called the Trump administration's suggestions of military intervention "reckless and irresponsible".[130]
National security
Gun control
Brown has criticized the political influence of gun manufacturers.[131]
Brown called the Republican legislature in Ohio "lunatics" for introducing a concealed carry bill that would allow people to carry guns into airplane terminals (before security), police buildings, private airplanes, and day care facilities.[132]
In the wake of the
In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Brown supported Dianne Feinstein's effort to ban bump stocks.[135]
Immigration
In July 2019, following reports that the Trump administration intended to cease protecting spouses, parents, and children of active-duty service members from deportation, Brown was one of 22 senators led by Tammy Duckworth to sign a letter arguing that the protection gave service members the ability "to fight for the United States overseas and not worry that their spouse, children, or parents will be deported while they are away" and that its termination would both cause service members personal hardship and negatively affect their combat performance.[136]
Opioids
In February 2017, Brown and 30 other senators signed a letter to Kaléo Pharmaceuticals in response to an increase of the opioid-overdose-reversing device Evzio's price from $690 in 2014 to $4,500. They requested the detailed price structure for Evzio, the number of devices Kaléo Pharmaceuticals set aside for donation, and the totality of federal reimbursements Evzio received in the previous year.[137]
Railroad safety
In June 2019, Brown was one of ten senators to cosponsor the Safe Freight Act, a bill requiring freight trains to have one or more certified conductors and a certified engineer aboard who can collaborate on protecting the train and people living near the tracks. The legislation was meant to correct a Federal Railroad Administration rollback of a proposed rule intended to establish safety standards.[138]
Terrorism
Brown was one of 67 members of Congress who voted against the 2001
In December 2015, Brown co-sponsored a bill in Congress that would restrict
Personal life
Brown was married to Larke Recchie from 1979 to 1987, and they had two children. During their divorce proceedings, Recchie obtained a restraining order against Brown to keep him from harassing or annoying her and from "doing bodily harm". In a supporting affidavit, she said she was "in fear for the safety and well-being of myself and our children due to [Brown's] physical violence and abusive nature" and that Brown had "intimidated, pushed, shoved and bullied" her on several occasions.[144] Years later, Recchie walked back her claims of physical violence against Brown.[145]
Recchie and Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz later became friends and filmed an ad together for Brown's 2006 Senate campaign. Recchie hosted a fund-raising event for Brown's 2012 reelection campaign against Republican Josh Mandel and issued a statement saying, "I understand that in campaigns you often have to go after your opponent, but Josh Mandel should know better than to go after our family. I ask that he immediately put a stop to this kind of politics. I was proud to support Sherrod in 2006 and I'm proud to support him again this time around against Josh Mandel. Josh Mandel should immediately stop this kind of dirty campaigning."[144]
In 2004, Brown married Schultz. She resigned from her job in 2011, because being a politician's spouse presented a conflict of interest.[146] She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005.[147] She is also the author of Life Happens (2007) and ...and His Lovely Wife (2008), in which she describes her experiences as the spouse of a U.S. Senate candidate.[148] He has two stepchildren from this marriage.[149]
Brown's daughter Elizabeth was president pro tempore of the
Brown's brother, Charlie, is a former West Virginia attorney general.[153]
On May 5, 2007, Brown was awarded an honorary doctorate from
In June 2023, NBC News reported that Brown had been late paying his Cleveland property tax bill seven times, most recently in February, and that for years he claimed owner-occupant tax credits on properties in two different Ohio counties.[156] Brown subsequently paid the delinquent tax bill and repaid Franklin County for the tax credit. His campaign said he would not claim it in future years.[156] In August 2023, Brown corrected several years of Senate financial disclosure forms that had previously omitted his wife's pension money.[157]
Bibliography
Brown is the author of three books:
- Congress from the Inside: Observations from the Majority and the Minority, Kent State University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0873387927
- Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, The New Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1595581242
- Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019, ISBN 978-0374138219
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Sherrod Brown (incumbent) | 69,455 | 100.00 | |
Total votes | 69,455 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Sherrod Brown (Incumbent) | 201,004 | 67.43 | |
Republican | Robert Lucas | 97,090 | 32.57 | |
Total votes | 298,094 | 100 | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Sherrod Brown | 583,776 | 78.11% | |
Democratic | Merrill Kesier Jr. | 163,628 | 21.89% | |
Total votes | 747,404 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Sherrod Brown | 2,257,369 | 56.16% | +20.0 | |
Republican | Mike DeWine (incumbent) | 1,761,037 | 43.82% | -15.8 | |
Independent
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Richard Duncan | 830 | 0.02% | n/a | |
Majority | 452,690 | 12.34% | |||
Turnout | 4,019,236 | 53.25% | |||
Democratic gain from Republican | Swing | -17.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Sherrod Brown (incumbent) | 802,678 | 100.00 | |
Total votes | 802,678 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Sherrod Brown (incumbent) | 2,762,766 | 50.70% | -5.46% | |
Republican | Josh Mandel | 2,435,744 | 44.70% | +0.88% | |
Independent
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Scott Rupert | 250,618 | 4.60% | N/A | |
Total votes | 5,449,128 | 100.0% | N/A | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Sherrod Brown (incumbent) | 613,373 | 100% | |
Total votes | 613,373 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Sherrod Brown (incumbent) | 2,358,508 | 53.40% | +2.70% | |
Republican | Jim Renacci | 2,057,559 | 46.58% | +1.88% | |
Write-in | 1,012 | 0.02% | N/A | ||
Total votes | 4,410,898 | 100.0% | N/A | ||
Democratic hold |
See also
- Ohio United States Senate elections
- List of United States senators from Ohio
- 2024 United States Senate election in Ohio
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External links
- Sherrod Brown official U.S. Senate website
- Sherrod Brown for Senate
- Sherrod Brown at Curlie
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Collected news and commentary at the Cleveland Plain Dealer