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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaBROWNE, Thomas McLelland
(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.
Barnes, William Horatio. Lives of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Hon. Henry Wilson, together with sketches of Republican candidates for Congress in Indiana
. Includes a sketch of General Thomas M. Browne, candidate for Governor of Indiana, by Major Jonathan W. Gordon. New York: W. H. Barnes, 1872.
Browne, Thomas McLelland. Contested election—English vs. Peelle
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
———. It is not the function of government to make men happy, but only to give them an opportunity by their own effort to become so. Speech of Hon. Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, June 28, 1884
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884.
———. Mexican-war pensions. Speech of Hon. Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, Monday, March 3, 1884
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
———. Remarks of Hon. Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana, in the House of representatives, March 21, 1884, on the bill to put Gen. W. W. Averill on the retired list
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
———. The soldier of the nation did not stop to count the peril or the sacrifice when the drum beat and the bugle blast called him to the battlefield
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
———. Tariff. A true statesmanship has regard for the interest of every class, for the national prosperity is but the aggregate prosperity of its citizens. Speech of Hon. Thos. M. Browne, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, April 30, 1884
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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