'''Simon Brown''' (November 29, 1802 – February 27, 1873) was an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] who served as the 21st [[Lieutenantlieutenant Governor of Massachusetts|Lieutenant Governor]] for the [[Commonwealthgovernor of Massachusetts]] from 1855 to 1856.<ref>{{cite book | hdl=2027/hvd.hnebrj | url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnebrj?urlappend=%3Bseq=64 | title=Proceedings at the Semi-centennial Celebration: Of the Organization of the Second Congregational (Unitarian) Church and Society in Concord, N. H. | publisher=Republican Press Association | year=1879 | pages=58–59}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsKnS6Q5ajMC&pg=PA369 | title=Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman | publisher=Beacon Press | last=Dall | first=Caroline Wells Healey | year=2005 | pages=369, 413 | isbn=978-0-8070-5034-7}}</ref> He was then an at-large delegate to the 1856 Republican Convention in [[Philadelphia]] where he supported the nomination of [[John C. Fremont]]. Professionally, Brown was a printer and publisher, including of the ''New England Farmer'', working in [[Boston]].<ref name="Granite-monthly">{{cite journal | url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081770111?urlappend=%3Bseq=259 | title=A Bit of Newspaper History | publisher=H.H. Metcalf | date=May 1879 | hdl=2027/nyp.33433081770111 | journal=The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress | volume=2 | issue=8 | page=237}}</ref> He died atin Concord, Massachusetts of typhoid fever, in 1873.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA384 | title=The Record | publisher=D Appleton & Co | date=1873-03-15 | journal=Appletons' Journal | volume=9 | issue=208 | page=384}}</ref>
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