Brown, Alfred Alexander, 1908-

The transportation economist Alfred Alexander Brown was born in Methuen, Mass., on August 2, 1908, the son of Harvey and Maude (Freeman) Brown. After receiving his bachelor's (1931) and master's degrees (1933) at Massachusetts State College in agricultural economics, the latter for a thesis on marketing Massachusetts apples, Brown pursued additional graduate study at Amherst College and at the Littauer School of Public Administration and Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard.

In 1934, Brown was hired for a brief period as a regional representative for the New York office of the American Fruit Growers Inc. and then as a marketing specialist for the Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Vermont, however in the following year he returned to his alma mater as an assistant research professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Focusing of the issues surrounding marketing and transportation, he earned tenure and in 1948, promotion to full professor.

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