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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.
Parson Brownlow finally closed his newspaper, announcing he expected to be arrested by the Confederates. Brownlow was granted permission to leave Tennessee by the Confederate Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, but enemies in Knox County helped to persuade District Attorney J. C. Ramsey to have the editor arrested.
Oct 8, 2017 · Parson Brownlow, minister, journalist, and governor, was one of those unique individuals who influenced Tennessee culture, politics, and government during the middle half of the nineteenth century.
Oct 26, 2018 · William Gannaway Brownlow, the Fighting Parson of Tennessee. 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.
Nov 20, 2011 · Of all the men arrested after the Nov. 8, 1861, bridge-bombing plot in eastern Tennessee, perhaps none was as surprising as William Gannaway “Parson” Brownlow. As late as 1861, Brownlow was...
On February 10, 1869, Tennessee Governor William G. “Parson” Brownlow tendered his resignation as he prepared to take his seat in the United States Senate, to which his Radical allies in the General Assembly had elected him in the aftermath of the 1867 state election.
INTRODUCTION. The biography of great men always has been, and always will be read with interest and profit. Great actions command admiration, and none of modern times excel those of the patriot exile, Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee.
