Charles H. Brand
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromGeorgia
In office March 4, 1917 – May 17, 1933
Preceded by	Tinsley W. Rucker, Jr.
Succeeded by	Paul Brown
Constituency	8th district (1917–1933) 10th district (1933)
Personal details
Born	Charles Hillyer Brand (1861-04-20)April 20, 1861 Loganville, Georgia, U.S.
Died	May 17, 1933(1933-05-17) (aged 72) Athens, Georgia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic

Charles Hillyer Brand (April 20, 1861 – May 17, 1933) was an American politician, businessman,jurist and lawyer.

Brand was born inLoganville, Georgia and graduated from theUniversity of Georgia inAthens in 1881. He was admitted to the state bar in 1882.

In 1894 and 1895, Brand served in theGeorgia Senate and was the presidentpro tempore of that body. Brand was also involved in the banking industry as president and director of the Brand Banking Co. inLawrenceville, Georgia, director of theGeorgia National Bank and of the American State Bank in Athens. Brand was the solicitor general of thewestern district of Georgia from 1896 through 1904 and succeededRichard B. Russell, Sr. as the judge of the state superior court in 1906. He served in that position until 1917.On June 27, 1911, a Walton County mob of several hundred unmasked white men lynched two Black men named Tom Allen and Joe Watts after a local white judge—Charles H. Brand—refused to allow state guardsmen to be present to prevent mob action. Three months earlier, in Judge Brand’s hometown of Lawrenceville in Gwinnett County, he had also refused the assistance of state troops to protect a Black man named Charles Hale, who, left without the protection of those troops, was taken by a white mob and lynched.

Brand was then elected as aDemocraticrepresentative ofGeorgia's 8th congressional district in the65th United States Congress and served seven consecutive terms in that district. Aftercongressional apportionment in 1932, Brand successfully ran for an eighth term in Georgia's newly redrawn10th congressional district. He died in Athens while still in office and was buried in Shadow Lawn Cemetery inLawrenceville, Georgia.

• List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)

• United States Congress."Charles H. Brand (id: B000767)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• History of the University of Georgia, Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949, pp.1159–1160

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• 1933 deaths
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• Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers
• Georgia (U.S. state) state court judges
• Democratic Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators
• Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state)
• 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
• 19th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly

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