Leland Stanford Brown Jr.
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Entertainment Executive
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
L. Stanford 'Stan' Brown Jr., 88, a Washington bandleader who became board chairman of Jack Morton Productions, a D.C.
business that brought entertainers to conferences, trade shows and corporate events, died May 11 at his home in Bethesda. He
had neuroendocrine cancer.
Mr. Brown, a pianist, led his own orchestra in the Washington area in the 1930s and 1940s. He once played on the cruise ship
Normandie.
He joined Jack Morton Productions in 1947 and stepped down as board chairman about a decade ago.
He continued to work at events until three years ago.
Leland Stanford Brown Jr., a native Washingtonian, was a 1937 graduate of McKinley Technical High School and a 1941
mechanical engineering graduate of Catholic University.
During World War II, he worked for the Navy's Bureau of Ships as a civilian designing turbine engines.
He was a member of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, the University Club of Washington and Columbia Country
Club in Chevy Chase, where he golfed.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Jeannette Rogers Brown of Bethesda; four children, Chip Brown of Great Falls, Victoria
Crawford of Phoenix, Jan Brown of Harrisburg, Pa., and Christie Lebling of Richmond; a sister; and eight grandchildren.