| LC control no. | n 50051650 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877 |
| Variant(s) | Brownlow, Parson, 1805-1877 Brownlow, W. G. (William Gannaway), 1805-1877 Brownlow, William, Parson, 1805-1877 |
| See also | Tennessee. Governor (1865-1869 : Brownlow) |
| Other standard no. | 1056091886 0000000031337782 n50051650 48008327 Q181727 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Elizabethton (Tenn.) |
| Birth date | 1805-08-29 |
| Death date | 1877-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Wythe County (Va.) |
| Place of death | Knoxville (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Sons of Temperance of North America Whig Party (Tenn.) American Party |
| Profession or occupation | Clergy Newspaper editors Governors Legislators |
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| Found in | His Secessionists and other scoundrels, 1999: CIP t.p. verso (William Gannaway Brownlow's ...) His To whom it may concern, 1871: t.p. (W.G. Brownlow) John Bell Brownlow Letter Finding Aid, via University of Tennessee Libraries website, June 29, 2007 (William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow; East Tennessee Unionist; ed. of the Knoxville Whig; [married] Eliza O'Brien Brownlow; [father of] John Bell Brownlow) Edward Lynn Letter, 1863 Finding Aid, via University of Tennessee Libraries website, July 30, 2007 (Parson William Brownlow) Lossing, B. J. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America, 1868: p. 37 (Rev. W.G. Brownlow D.D.; methodist preacher; prominent East Tenn. Loyalist; suffered persecution; falsely charged of burning railway-bridges in East Tenn.; secreted himself in the Smoky Mountains) Special message of Gov. Wm. G. Brownlow, to the Tennessee General Assembly, at the called session, July 4th, 1866, 1866: cover (Governor) Tenn. blue bk., 2007-2008 p. 495 (William Gannaway Brownlow, 1865-1869) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed August 16, 2016 (Brownlow, 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.) <https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B000963> Wikipedia August 8, 2023: (Brownlow joined the Sons of Temperance in 1850, and promoted temperance policies in the Whig (one of his more common personal attacks was to accuse his opponents of being "drunkards.". Following the collapse of the Whig Party in the mid-1850s, he aligned himself with the Know Nothing movement, as he had long shared this movement's anti-Catholic and nativist sentiments. Brownlow married a younger Eliza Ann O'Brien during 1836 in Carter County, Tennessee, where the two resided in her hometown of Elizabethton. Brownlow cut his teeth in the newspaper business during 1838 writing for the short-lived Elizabethton Republican and Manufacturer's Advocate, initially under its editor William Gott. In May 1849, Brownlow relocated the Whig to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was already well known for his clashes with the Democratic Standard, which he had dubbed a "filthy lying sheet.") <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson_Brownlow> |
| Associated language | eng |
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