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Orville Hickman Browning (February 10, 1806 – August 10, 1881) was an attorney in Illinois and a politician who was active in the Whig and Republican Parties. He served as a U.S. Senator and the 9th United States Secretary of the Interior.
Orville H. Browning (1806-1881) In September 1864, Orville H. Browning wrote a friend that he was never “able to persuade myself that [President Lincoln] was big enough for his position.” 1 One of the mysteries of the Lincoln-Browning friendship is that Browning seemed to have so little real respect for a legal and political associate that ...
9 de mar. de 2009 · The diary of Orville Hickman Browning by Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881; Pease, Theodore Calvin, 1887-1948; Randall, J. G. (James Garfield), 1881-1953
Orville Hickman Browning was born in 1806 in Harrison County, Kentucky. He attended Augusta College in Kentucky but never received a degree. Browning studied law and was admitted to the Kentucky state bar in 1831, the same year he left Kentucky and moved to Quincy, Illinois.
A BRAHAM LINCOLN'S associate Orville H. Browning. jTjl of Quincy, Illinois, is best remembered for his faithfully kept and historically valuable, though often tedious diary.
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Orville Hickman Browning was a friend and rival of Abraham Lincoln who became a prominent U.S. senator and cabinet secretary. Like Lincoln, Browning was born in Kentucky but established himself as an attorney in Illinois during the 1830s and 1840s.
