What is Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)?
{{Infobox officeholder | name=Harold Brown | image=Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown.jpg | imagesize=200px | order=14th | title=[[United States Secretary of Defense]] | term_start=January 21, 1977 | term_end=January 20, 1981 | president=[[Jimmy Carter]] | predecessor=[[Donald Rumsfeld]] | successor=[[Caspar Weinberger]] | birth_date={{birth date|1927|09|19}} | birth_place= [[New York City]], [[New York|NY]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date={{death date and age|2019|1|4|1927|9|19}} | death_place=[[Rancho Santa Fe, California|Rancho Santa Fe]], [[California]], U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | alma_mater=[[Columbia University]] | profession=[[Physicist]] |spouse=Colene Dunning McDowell (m. 1953; 2 children) }} '''Harold Brown''' (September 19, 1927 &ndash; January 4, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] scientist and politician. He was the [[United States Secretary of Defense|U.S. Secretary of Defense]] from 1977 to 1981 in the cabinet of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]]. He last served in the [[Lyndon Johnson]] administration as [[Director of Defense Research and Engineering]] and [[Secretary of the Air Force]]. Brown died of [[pancreatic cancer]] on January 4, 2019 at his home in [[Rancho Santa Fe, California|Rancho Santa Fe]], [[California]], aged 91.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/obituaries/harold-brown-dead.html |title=Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in Carter Administration, Dies at 91 |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=2019-01-05 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-01-05 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Brown,+Harold Annotated Bibliography for Harold Brown from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804021208/http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people%2FBrown%2C+Harold |date=2010-08-04 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Har