article_title name birth_date occupation
bob brown -lrb- montana politician -rrb-
 bob brown 1947 secretary of state , montana
bob brown -lrb- montana politician -rrb-

bob brown was the secretary of state for montana and the republican nominee for governor in 2004 .
as a young man , brown was elected to montana legislature .
brown spent two years in the state house , 23 in the senate and his final year in the legislature as president of the senate .
his political mentors include jean turnage , who spent 20 years in the senate and subsequently 15 as chief justice of the supreme court before retiring in 1991 .
brown became senate education chairman in 1977 and served in that capacity through 1983 .
he served as chairman of the taxation committee in 1987 .
he became chairman of the committee on committees , one of the most innocuously named but powerful senate committees , in 1989 .
he sat on the judicial committee from 1975 to 1993 .
in 2000 , brown ran for secretary of state and won by a 7 percent margin .
in 2004 , brown entered the race for governor against democrat brian schweitzer .
although the race was heated , he eventually lost .
he served as a fellow at both the carol o'connor center for the rocky mountain west and the maureen & mike mansfield center at the university of montana .
he is currently retired and sits on the board of the montana state historical society .
