Harold Brown
14th United States Secretary of Defense
In office January 21, 1977 ? January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Donald Rumsfeld
Succeeded by	Caspar Weinberger
Personal details
Born	( 1927-09-19 ) September 19, 1927 New York City , NY , U.S.
Died	January 4, 2019 (2019-01-04) (aged 91) Rancho Santa Fe , California , U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Colene Dunning McDowell (m. 1953; 2 children)
Alma mater	Columbia University
Profession	Physicist

Harold Brown (September 19, 1927 – January 4, 2019) was an American scientist and politician. He was the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981 in the cabinet of 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 , aged 91. ^[1]

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• Annotated Bibliography for Harold Brown from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2010-08-04 at the Wayback Machine

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