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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWalter Preston BROWNLOW
(1851-1910)
BROWNLOW, Walter Preston,
(nephew of William Gannaway Brownlow), a Representative from
Tennessee; born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., March 27,
1851; attended the common schools; employed as a telegraph
messenger boy when only ten years of age; became an apprentice in
the tinning business at the age of fourteen and later became a
locomotive engineer; entered upon newspaper work as a reporter for
the Knoxville Whig and Chronicle in 1876; in the same year
purchased the Herald and Tribune in Jonesboro, Tenn.; delegate to
the Republican National Conventions in 1880, 1884, 1896, 1900, and
1904; appointed postmaster at Jonesboro in March 1881; resigned in
the following December to accept the position of Doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress and served
in that capacity from 1881 to 1883; member of the Republican
National Committee in 1884, 1896, and 1900; elected as a Republican
to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1897, until his death; member of the Board of
Managers for the National Soldiers’ Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers 1902-1910; died at the National Soldiers’
Home, Johnson City, Washington County, Tenn., July 8, 1910;
interment in the Soldiers’ Home Cemetery.
Bibliography
Beeson, Helen S. “Walter P. Brownlow, Republican.”
Master’s thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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