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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaThomas McLelland BROWNE
(1829-1891)
BROWNE, Thomas McLelland,
a Representative from Indiana; born in New Paris, Preble County,
Ohio, April 19, 1829; moved to Indiana in January 1844; attended
the common schools; moved to Winchester, Randolph County, Ind., in
1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced
practice in Winchester; elected prosecuting attorney for the
thirteenth judicial circuit in 1855; reelected in 1857 and 1859;
secretary of the State senate in 1861; member of the State senate
in 1863; assisted in organizing the Seventh Regiment, Indiana
Volunteer Cavalry of the Union Army, and went to the field with
that regiment as captain of Company B, August 28, 1863;
commissioned lieutenant colonel October 1, 1863; promoted to
colonel October 10, 1865, and subsequently commissioned by
President Lincoln as brigadier general by brevet March 13, 1865;
mustered out February 18, 1866; appointed United States attorney
for the district of Indiana in April 1869 and served until his
resignation August 1, 1872; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in
1872; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891); chairman,
Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee
on Revision of the Laws (Fifty-first Congress); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1890; died in Winchester, Ind., July 17, 1891;
interment in Fountain Park Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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