Henry Billings Brown

Ironically—in light of Brown's racial attitudes—the house is now the embassy of the Republic of the Congo. Depew roomed across the hall from Brown for three years in Old North Middle Hall and remembered "a feminine quality [about Brown] which led to his being called Henrietta though there never was a more robust courageous and decided man in meeting the problems of life[. S.

District Judge in Detroit before ascending to the high court Brown authored hundreds of opinions in his 31 years as a federal judge including the majority opinion in Plessy v. An admiralty lawyer and U.