George Leslie Brown (1926–2006) was an American politician, journalist, and military veteran who made history as Colorado’s first Black lieutenant governor and one of the first African Americans to hold statewide office outside the South.
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Brown excelled in athletics before serving as a Tuskegee Airman in World War II. Afterward, he earned a journalism degree from the University of Kansas (1950) and pursued graduate studies at Harvard Business School, the University of Colorado, and the University of Denver.
Brown became the Rocky Mountain region’s first Black editor for a major daily newspaper, working at The Denver Post before entering politics. He served in the Colorado House of Representatives (1955–57) and the Colorado Senate (1957–74.) In 1974, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving until 1979.
Beyond politics, Brown held leadership roles in Denver’s Public Housing Program and later became a senior vice president at Grumman Corporation, the first Black corporate officer in a major U.S. aerospace company.
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Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
—George L. Brown
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