Brown, Bryant Council, 1899-1967.

Bryant Council Brown was a student of Professor Horace Williams at the University of North Carolina. He went on to positions as secretary and legal counsel to the U.S. Congress's Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation and as counsel to the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, a private group of insurance companies.

Bryant Council Brown was born in Snead's Ferry, North Carolina, in 1899, the son of James Christopher Brown, a minister in the Primitive Baptist Church, and Alice Williams Brown. While a student at the University of North Carolina, Brown studied under Horace Williams and was private secretary to President Edward Kidder Graham. He was also active in fundraising campaigns to finance the erection of the Edward Kidder Graham Memorial.

After graduation from UNC in 1922, Brown studied at the UNC Law School and at Harvard Law School. Brown married Ann Duncan of Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1924 and soon moved to Washington, D.C., where he continued his law studies at the National University Law School. During this time, he also worked as minority clerk of the Senate Finance Committee.

When the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation was created in 1926, Brown was its first employee, initially serving as secretary to the Committee and later as staff attorney. In his work with the Committee, he helped to shape federal tax legislation from the first Internal Revenue Code to the reorganization of the Internal Revenue Service after World War II.

In 1957, Brown retired from government service to become counsel at the Washington, D.C., office of the American Mutual Insurance Alliance. In 1963, Brown left this position to take up permanent residence at the Beaufort, North Carolina, home that he had maintained as a summer home since 1954. He died in 1967.