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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJoseph Emerson BROWN
(1821-1894)
Senate Years of Service:
1880-1891Party: DemocratBROWN, Joseph Emerson, a
Senator from Georgia; born in the Pickens District of South
Carolina April 15, 1821; moved to Georgia; attended Calhoun Academy
in South Carolina; taught school; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1845 and later graduated from the Yale Law School; returned to
Georgia and commenced practice in 1846; member, State senate 1849;
judge of the superior court of the Blue Ridge circuit in 1855;
Governor of Georgia 1855-1865, when he resigned; chief justice of
the supreme court of Georgia 1865-1870, when he resigned and
accepted the presidency of the Western Atlantic Railroad Co.;
appointed and subsequently elected in 1880 as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of John B. Gordon; reelected in 1885 and served from May 26, 1880,
until March 3, 1891; not a candidate for reelection; died in
Atlanta, Ga., November 30, 1894; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Parks, Joseph. Joseph E. Brown of Georgia.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977; Roberts,
Derrell C. Joseph E. Brown and the Politics of
Reconstruction. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press,
1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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