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Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881

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Personal name headingBrowning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881
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Variant(s)Browning, O. H. (Orville Hickman), 1806-1881
Birth date1806-02-10
Death date1881-08-10
Place of birthCynthiana (Ky.)
Place of deathQuincy (Ill.)
AffiliationAugusta College (Augusta, Ky.)
Illinois. General Assembly. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate.
United States. Department of the Interior.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupationLegislators Lawyers Cabinet officers
Found innuc86-74531: His The diary of Orville Hickman Browning [MI] 1925-1933 (hdg. on LCP rept.: Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881)
National map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, 1867: map recto (Hon. O.H. Hickman, Secretary of the Interior)
LCCN 27-7595: His The diary of Orville Hickman Browning ... 1925-1933 (hdg.: Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881)
Biog, dir. of the U.S. Congress, August 10, 2018 (Browning, Orville Hickman, a Senator from Illinois; born in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., February 10, 1806; attended Augusta College; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831; moved to Quincy, Ill., in 1831 and practiced; served in the Illinois Volunteers during the Black Hawk War 1832; member, State senate 1836-1843; unsuccessful candidate for election as a Whig in 1843 to the Twenty-eighth Congress, in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress, and in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; delegate to the anti-Nebraska convention held at Bloomington, Ill., in May 1856, which laid the foundations of the Republican Party; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen A. Douglas and served from June 26, 1861, to January 12, 1863, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for election in 1863; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-seventh Congress); appointed by President Andrew Johnson as Secretary of the Interior 1866-1869, also discharging for a time the duties of Attorney General; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1869; resumed the practice of law; died in Quincy, Adams County, Ill., August 10, 1881; interment in Woodland Cemetery)
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