Elon R, Brown, republican Senator from the Thirty-fifth Senatorial District, composed of Jefferson and Oswego counties, is President protem of the State Senate.

He was born in Orleans, Jefferson County, N.Y., on October 7, 1857.

Mr. Brown graduated from brown University in 1878 and since his admission to the bar in 1880, has practiced law in Watertown, N.Y. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1894, and of the State Senate from 1898 to 1904 inclusive.

Upon the assembling of the Legislature of 191 Mr. Brown became the Republican leader in the Senate and still occupies that position.