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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.
Learn about the life and career of W. G. Brownlow, a Methodist minister, newspaper editor, governor and senator who was known as the "Terror of Tennessee". Discover his views on religion, politics, slavery, and his feuds with Andrew Johnson and James K. Polk.
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 · Learn about the life and career of William Gannaway Brownlow, a controversial politician who supported slavery but opposed secession, and became the first Reconstruction governor of Tennessee. Find out how he became known as the Fighting Parson and how he clashed with Andrew Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan.
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.
