Ted Brown

Ted Brown is a Libertarian politician and speaker. Brown is the 2020 Libertarian candidate for U. S. Congress in the 17th District of Texas.He is also the candidate coordinator for the Libertarian Party of Texas.He has been active in the Libertarian Party for over 40 years, first in California and then in Texas.He previously served as Chair of the California Libertarian Party, elected in May 2015 for a two-year term, re-elected in April 2017 for a two-year term, but resigned in 2018 after moving to Texas.

In California, Brown was a frequent candidate for various offices on the Libertarian ticket.Between 1980 and 2008 he ran for the United States House of Representatives seven times, California State Assembly three times, Insurance Commissioner twice, and United States Senate & California State Senate once each.

Brown was born in 1960 in Steubenville, Ohio, the grandson of German, Greek and Jewish immigrants.The family relocated to Wheeling, West Virginia in 1970, where he worked in his family business through high school.He graduated from Linsly Military Institute in 1978 before attending Wesleyan University in Connecticut for one year, after which he moved to California. He graduated from UCLA in 1984, with a B. A. in political science with a concentration in Constitutional Law.He has been employed in the insurance industry for his entire professional career and is currently self-employed as an independent insurance adjuster.He is married to Laura Brown and has an adult daughter named Katie.He currently resides in Austin, Texas.