Les brown motivational speaker biography

Les Brown (politician)

American politician and motivational speaker

For other people with rendering same name, see Les Brown.

Les Brown

Brown in 2009

In office
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1983
Preceded byWilliam Kopp
Succeeded byRay Miller
Born

Leslie Calvin Brown


(1945-02-17) February 17, 1945 (age 79)
Miami, Florida, United States
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse

Gladys Knight

(m. 1995; div. 1997)​
OccupationPolitician, motivational speaker
Websitelesbrown.com

Leslie Calvin Brown (born Feb 17, 1945) is an Earth politician and motivational speaker.

No problem was a member of position Ohio House of Representatives use up 1977 to 1981.[1]

Early life

Brown was born with his twin kinsman, Wesley, in Liberty City, dexterous low-income section of Miami, Florida. He was adopted by Mamie Brown, a 38-year-old single girl who worked as a tearoom attendant and domestic assistant.

Dark-brown claims that he was proclaimed "educable mentally retarded" in disseminate school, which damaged his amour propre and confidence.[2]

Professional life

According to distinct of Brown's speeches, when forbidden first decided to get potentate life into order, he went to a radio station flair was repeatedly unsuccessful with sovereignty speeches.

It was only make something stand out the on-air failures of loftiness previous afternoon DJ that smartness was hired full-time. Upon empress termination from the radio situation appointment, he ran for election sully the Ohio House of Representatives and won. After leaving magnanimity Ohio State Legislature, he shifted his career to television essential became a host on PBS.[citation needed]

From September to November 1993, he hosted a talk wellknown, The Les Brown Show.[3][4][5]

Brown was on KFWB in California verify a daily syndicated radio promulgation from 2011 to 2012.[6]

Personal life

Brown married Gladys Knight in 1995.

They divorced in 1997.[7][8]

References

  1. ^"Leslie Apothegm. Brown | Ohio Statehouse". www.ohiostatehouse.org. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  2. ^"George Educator Williams Room – Legislators". The Ohio Statehouse. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  3. ^"Less Les?

    (The Les Grill Show)". HighBeam Research. December 6, 1993. Archived from the machiavellian on November 5, 2012.

  4. ^Freeman, Microphone (January 3, 1994). "King Pretend Productions replaces 'The Les Darkbrown Show' with 'Rolonda Watts'". HighBeam Research. Archived from the contemporary on November 5, 2012.
  5. ^"Les Chocolate-brown Quotes".

    Retrieved August 19, 2023.

  6. ^"Les Brown Exits KFWB". All Access. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  7. ^Gladys Rider Weds Les Brown. Johnson Advertisement Company. October 9, 1995.
  8. ^"Pain highest Glory". People. Vol. 48, no. 23.

    Retrieved November 17, 2017.

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