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William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (August 29, 1805 – April 29, 1877) was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.
26 de oct. de 2018 · The controversial politician William Gannaway Brownlow shepherded Tennessee's re-admission to the Union. It was the first state of the Confederacy to do so.
8 de oct. de 2017 · Brownlow allied his administration with Reconstruction policies of congressional Republicans in opposition to those of President Andrew Johnson. By influencing the state legislature to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in mid-1866, he swayed Congress to restore Tennessee fully to the Union.
25 de abr. de 2024 · William G. Brownlow (born Aug. 29, 1805, Wythe county, Va., U.S.—died April 29, 1877, Knoxville, Tenn.) was the editor of the last pro-Union newspaper in the antebellum South of the United States who served as governor of Tennessee during the early years of Reconstruction.
18 de may. de 2018 · The American preacher William Gannaway Brownlow (1805-1877) became the voice of strongly pro-Union East Tennessee before and during the Civil War through his speeches, writings, and news papers. He was known as "the fighting parson."
William Gannaway Brownlow was born on August 29th, 1805 to poor farmers in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. Orphaned at 11, he bounced around family members learning different trades until finally in 1825 he found his calling at a Methodist camp meeting.
As Tennessee’s Radical Republican governor during Reconstruction, Brownlow ruled with a dictatorial hand, disenfranchising a majority of citizens, who had supported the Confederacy. He was reelected in 1867 and though in ill health was elected to a U.S. Senate seat by the state legislature, which resulted in his resignation as governor.
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