Charles Manley Brown (1904-1995), better known as Charlie Brown, was the son of Charles Manley Brown (1871-1904) and Mamie Susan Fickett (1873-1967). The family lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and Brown attended attended Tech High (Atlanta, GA.) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA.). He married Elsie Anderson (1903-1993), and they had two girls, Barbara (1929-?) and Suzanne (1933-2001). Charlie Brown was A civic leader and businessman, Brown had a long political career, holding offices of Fulton County Commissioner, Senator of Georgia, member of the House of Representatives of Georgia, and having been a candidate for mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as president of the Atlanta Kiwanis Club and the president of West End Businessmen's Association while being a member of many other organizations. He was president of Fickett-Brown Manufacturing Company, successors to Fickett Manufacturing Company which was Brown's maternal grandfather's company. The company manufactured mops. James C. Bryant wrote a biography of Charlie Brown titled Charlie Brown Remembers Atlanta: A Public Man as Told to James C. Bryant, published 1982.