A great lady and Democrat has died

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 5:24 AM PST

2009/02/03 · 05:24

Emily Campbell Brown, 88, died February 2 in Mansfield Ohio. Like many great Americans she was known to many in her community but not much outside of it. While she will receive some attention for the fact that her son Sherrod is the junior senator from Ohio, her own achievements in life merit paying her final attention. In honor of her, I am posting my first diary at Daily Kos.

Emily's life was fueled by her faith, her love of her family, and her passion for social justice and racial equality. Born in Mansfield Georgia, she grew up in a farming community hit hard by the Depression. Her father was nonetheless able to send her to college, and afterward, she began a career as a schoolteacher.

During WWII she came to work in Washington at the Foreign Economic Administration. During the war she met a physician-serviceman from Mansfield Ohio, Dr. Charles Brown. They married after the war and settled in his hometown.

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