[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 152 (Tuesday, October 29, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S7618]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. CRUZ (for himself and Mr. Cornyn):
  S. 1594. A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 
101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the Paul Brown United 
States Courthouse; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
  Mr. CRUZ. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the late Judge Paul 
Brown, and to urge the Senate to adopt a bill I am introducing, along 
with the Senior Senator from Texas. This bill will rename the Federal 
courthouse in Sherman, TX, as the Paul Brown United States Courthouse.
  Judge Brown was a Federal judge for the United States District Court 
for the Eastern District of Texas. He joined the court in 1985, after 
being nominated by President Reagan. He served on that court admirably 
until his death on November 26, 2012.
  Judge Paul Brown was born on October 4, 1926. He was the youngest of 
6 children. He was raised on a farm near Pottsboro, TX. He graduated 
from Denison High School in 1943.
  He left home to attend the University of Texas at Austin. But with 
World War II escalating, he left UT to enlist in the Navy at the age of 
17. He returned to UT, where he got his law degree in 1950. He is said 
to have loved UT so much that a fellow judge once recalled that 
although Judge Brown never wore a burnt orange tie on the bench, you 
could see him ``glow orange'' by simply mentioning UT.
  Just after Judge Brown got his law degree, the Korean War began. And 
he served our country admirably once again in the Navy from 1950 to 
1951. In 1951, he returned to Sherman, TX, and began private practice. 
In 1953, he was appointed as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Texas. President Eisenhower named him U.S. Attorney for the 
Eastern District of Texas in 1959.
  After meeting and marrying Francis Morehead in Texarkana, Judge Brown 
then moved back to Sherman and reentered private practice in 1961. 
After almost a quarter century of practicing law in Sherman, Senator 
Phil Gramm recommended Judge Brown to President Reagan for a new 
vacancy in the Eastern District of Texas.
  Judge Brown was confirmed for this vacancy in 1985. He served with 
distinction for the next 27 years. Judge Brown took senior status in 
2001. At Judge Brown's retirement celebration, Chief Judge Heartfield 
called Judge Brown ``a textbook member'' of ``the Greatest 
Generation.''
  His legacy lives on today, as the Judge Paul Brown Endowed 
Scholarship was established at the University of Texas School of Law in 
2005. He was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of Denison High School 
in 2006.
  Judge Brown will be missed by his family, his community, and his 
nation. He, and his family, deserve this great honor, as the people of 
Sherman, TX, will forever remember the great jurist, Judge Paul Brown.
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