Editing Clancy Brown (section)

==Early life==
Clarence J. Brown III was born on January 5, 1959,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/05/UPI-Almanac-for-Saturday-Jan-5-2019/9081546481545/ |title=UPI Almanac for Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019 |publisher=[[United Press International]] |date=January 5, 2019 |access-date=September 6, 2019 |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105134420/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/05/UPI-Almanac-for-Saturday-Jan-5-2019/9081546481545/|url-status=live |quote=actor Clancy Brown in 1959 (age 60)}}</ref> in [[Urbana, Ohio]],<ref name=TVG>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/clancy-brown/bio/144992/ |title=Clancy Brown |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |access-date=September 6, 2019 |archive-date=September 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906023958/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/clancy-brown/bio/144992/|url-status=live}}</ref> and had an older sister, Beth, who died in 1964. Their mother, Joyce Helen (née Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. The siblings' father, [[Bud Brown (politician)|Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr.]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.urbanacitizen.com/2022/01/27/former-congressman-clarence-j-bud-brown-jr-dies-at-age-94/ |title=Former Congressman Clarence J. 'Bud' Brown, Jr. dies at age 94 |date=January 27, 2022 |newspaper=[[Urbana Daily Citizen]] |access-date=March 4, 2023}}</ref> was a newspaper publisher who helped manage the [[Brown Publishing Company]], the family-owned newspaper business started by Clancy's grandfather, Congressman [[Clarence J. Brown]]. From 1965 to 1983, Bud Brown also served as a congressman, in the same seat as his own father, and later as [[Chairman of the Board]] of Brown Publishing.<ref>{{CongBio|B000910|inline=yes}}</ref> The family continued to operate the business until 2010.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

Brown graduated from [[St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)|St. Albans School]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Northwestern University]].<ref name=MSN>{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/rf-watch-online/actors/clancy-brown |title=Clancy Brown |website=[[MSN|MSN Watch Online Guide]] |access-date=August 11, 2019}}</ref> At St. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor [[Thomas Danforth]] in ''[[The Crucible]]''.<ref>Evans, James S. ''An Uncommon Gift''. Bridgebooks, 1983. 109.</ref>