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Richard Lewis Brown known as R. L. Brown (1854–1948) was a builder and state politician who lived in Jacksonville Florida. An African American Brown was born in South Carolina and moved with his family to Florida after the American Civil War first to Lake City and then Jacksonville. He was married in 1875 and worked as a carpenter farmer and minister. He served two terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 1881 to 1884.