| LC control no. | n 87836113 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Albert Gallatin, 1813-1880 |
| Variant(s) | Brown, A. G. (Albert Gallatin), 1813-1880 |
| See also | Mississippi. Governor (1844-1848 : Brown) |
| Birth date | 1813-05-13 |
| Death date | 1880-06-12 |
| Place of birth | Chester County (S.C.) |
| Place of death | Terry (Miss.) |
| Affiliation | Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House Mississippi. Circuit Superior Court United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Judges Governors Soldiers Farmers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Southern Mississippi Lib. for Jackson, A.M. Papers, 1846-1892 (Albert Gallatin Brown; U.S. Senator from Mississippi) LC data base 12-11-87 (hdg.: Brown, Albert Gallatin, 1813-1880) His Speech of Hon. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi, 1856. Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, June 7, 2018 (Brown, Albert Gallatin, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Chester District, S.C., May 31, 1813; moved with his parents to Copiah County, Miss., in 1823; attended Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., and Jefferson College, Washington, Miss.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Gallatin, Miss.; member, State house of representatives 1835-1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1840; judge of the circuit superior court 1842-1843; Governor of Mississippi 1844-1848; elected to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1852; elected to the United States Senate in 1854 to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1853; reelected in 1859 and served from January 7, 1854, until January 12, 1861, when he withdrew; seat declared vacant by Senate resolution on March 14, 1861; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-fourth through Thirty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-sixth Congress); during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as a captain; elected a member of the Confederate Senate in 1862 and served in the First and Second Confederate Congresses; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died near Terry, Hinds County, Miss., June 12, 1880; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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