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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeGordon Weaver BROWNING
(1889-1976)
BROWNING, Gordon Weaver, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Atwood, Carroll County,
Tenn., November 22, 1889; attended the public schools; B.S.,
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., 1913; graduated from
Cumberland University Law School in 1915; was admitted to the bar
and commenced practice in Huntingdon, Tenn., in 1915; enlisted in
the National Guard in June 1917, and commissioned a second
lieutenant of the First Tennessee Field Artillery, afterwards the
One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery, Thirtieth Division;
promoted to first lieutenant and to captain and served in France;
was discharged from the service in 1919 and resumed the practice of
law in Huntingdon, Tenn.; unsuccessful candidate for election in
1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1923-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in
1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
nomination to the United States Senate; one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of
California; resumed the practice of law; Governor of Tennessee
1937-1939; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938;
chancellor of the Eighth Tennessee Chancery Division 1942-1949; was
appointed a captain in the United States Army on February 17, 1943;
attended the School of Military Government at Charlottesville, Va.;
advanced through the ranks to lieutenant colonel; acted as deputy
head of the Belgium-Luxembourg missions until January 1946; with
the military government in Germany for one year, serving as
civil-affairs adviser on the supreme commander’s staff; again
Governor of Tennessee from January 1949 to January 1953;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952 and for nomination
as governor in 1954; engaged in the practice of law and in the
operation of a dairy farm; president of insurance firm before
retirement; resided in Huntingdon, Tenn., where he died May 23,
1976; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Majors, William R. The End of Arcadia: Gordon Browning and
Tennessee Politics. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University
Press, 1982.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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