IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 149 
Honoring Dick Brown: New York’s greatest ambassador to Washington. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 10, 2009 
Mr. RANGEL submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring Dick Brown: New York’s greatest ambassador to 
Washington. 
Whereas Richard Arthur Brown, known to his friends as 
Dick Brown, was one of the greatest ambassadors the 
city of New York has ever had in Washington, DC; 
Whereas he passed away on February 13, 2004, at the age 
of 85; 
Whereas he was a native New Yorker, raised in Manhattan, 
educated at City College of the City University of New 
York and New York University; 
Whereas among the considerable talents he applied in ad-
vancing his passion for politics were the arts of jour-
nalism and publicity, including a weekly column which 
appeared in the New York Post; 
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Whereas his first love was his beloved wife Vivian and his 
family, and after them the great city of New York and 
the world of politics; 
Whereas, after returning home from service in the U.S. Army 
in Panama, he became entrenched in New York City poli-
tics where, in 1949, he founded the Lexington Demo-
cratic Club and became a leader of the Reform Movement 
in Democratic politics; 
Whereas in that capacity he worked closely with Eleanor Roo-
sevelt, Governor Lehman, and New York Post publisher 
Dorothy Schiff in spreading the message of political re-
form around the city; 
Whereas I first met Dick Brown when I was serving as an 
Assemblyman in the New York State Legislature and in-
vited him to work with us on the mayoral ticket headed 
by Jim Scheur; 
Whereas Dick later served as Scheur’s chief of staff in Wash-
ington when he was elected to Congress; 
Whereas Dick Brown’s move to Washington was one of the 
best things that ever happened to spread the gospel in 
the Nation’s capital about all the good things that were 
available in the great city of New York; 
Whereas Dick Brown mastered the role as New York’s impre-
sario to Washington; as the executive director of the New 
York Festival which I helped to found in the 1970s, Dick 
Brown showcased New York in ways no one had ever 
seen before; all of its best foods, wines, culture, theater 
and the arts took center stage on one glorious night each 
year; 
Whereas those days will never be forgotten, when the strains 
of Frank Sinatra’s anthem to our city, ‘‘New York, New 
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York’’, rang over the Nation’s capital; for that we will 
forever owe Dick Brown our gratitude; and 
Whereas Dick Brown is survived by his wife, Vivian, daugh-
ter and son-in-law Jennifer and Leonard Greenberger, his 
grandchildren Brandon and Rachel and his sister Roselyn 
Freeman: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That Dick Brown will forever be remem-
bered as a great American political reformer and as one 
of New York’s greatest ambassadors. 
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