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Former Tennessee mental health commissioner James Brown is dead

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, December 6th, 2004

James S. Brown, MD, former Tennessee Mental Health commissioner and a longtime advocate for children and the handicapped, is dead at age 79.

Brown died November 16, 2004, at his home after battling cancer and heart disease for several years.

He was mental health commissioner from 1979 to 1984, but his legacy of public service spanned more than three decades. He was Arlington Developmental Center's first superintendent, and years later, medical director of the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.

He was born in Memphis and graduated from high school in Paducah, Ky., in 1943.

After 2 years as an Army medical...

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