Brown, Jon Christopher, 1949-

Jon Christopher Brown was born on December 3, 1949, in Jersey City, N.J. He earned a B.S. degree in botany at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, an M.S. degree in botany at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Ph.D. in biology at Tulane University, where he wrote his dissertation on plant communities of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Campeche, Mexico. A tobacco enthusiast, Brown became interested in Louisiana perique tobacco and has helped revive this dying crop through promotion and entrepreneurship with perique farmer, Percy Martin.