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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Gannaway BROWNLOW
(1805-1877)
Senate Years of Service:
1869-1875Party: RepublicanBROWNLOW, William
Gannaway, (uncle of Walter Preston Brownlow), a Senator from
Tennessee; born near Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., August 29,
1805; attended the common schools; entered the Methodist ministry
in 1826; moved to Elizabethton, Tenn., in 1828 and continued his
ministerial duties; published and edited a newspaper called the
Whig at Elizabethton in 1839; moved the paper to Jonesboro, Tenn.,
in 1840 and to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849, and from his caustic and
trenchant editorials became widely known as ‘the fighting
parson’; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1842 to
Congress; appointed by President Millard Fillmore in 1850 a member
of the Tennessee River Commission for the Improvement of
Navigation; delegate to the constitutional convention which
reorganized the State government of Tennessee in 1864; elected
Governor in 1865 and again in 1867; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3,
1875; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on
Revolutionary Claims (Forty-third Congress); returned to journalism
in Knoxville, Tenn., until his death there on April 29, 1877;
interment in the Old Grey Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Ash, Stephen V., ed.
Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson
Brownlow’s Book. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1999; Coulter, E. Merton. William G. Brownlow: Fighting
Parson of the Southern Highlands. 1937. Reprint. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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