Best Known As: Political Figure

Gist:  Anthony G. Brown (born November 21, 1961, in Huntington, New York) is a Democratic Party politician from the State of Maryland. He was elected as Maryland?s eighth Lieutenant Governor in 2006 on a ticket with Governor Martin O?Malley. As of November 2008, Brown is the highest-ranking elected official in the nation to have served a tour of duty in Iraq.

Brown previously served two terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Prince George's County. A 25-year veteran of the United States Army, he is currently a Colonel in the United States Army Reserve.

Career Facts:  Brown attended Harvard College and majored in Government. While at Harvard, he served on the Student Advisory Committee at the Kennedy School of Government?s Institute of Politics. While at Harvard, Brown enrolled in the U.S. Army ROTC program at MIT (Harvard did not offer ROTC at the time). Brown graduated cum laude in 1984 and was immediately commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

After serving five years on active duty, Brown returned to the United States to attend law school in the fall of 1989. He attended Harvard Law School at the same time as other notable African Americans, including Barack Obama, Artur Davis and actor Hill Harper.

After graduating in 1992, Brown completed a two-year clerkship for then-Chief Judge Eugene Sullivan on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Services. In 1994, Brown joined the Washington, D.C. office of the international law firm law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering (now WilmerHale). In 1998, Brown joined the Prince George?s County law firm Gibbs & Haller.