Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
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Brownlow, William G., 1805-1877.
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William Gannaway Brownlow.
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Brownlow, ... (William Gannaway), Parson, 1805-1877
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Brownlow, Parson, 1805-1877
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Brownlow, W. G. 1805-1877 (William Gannaway),
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Brownlow, William Parson 1805-1877
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Brownlow, William Parson 1805-1877
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William G. Brownlow was a minister, newspaper publisher, and governor, who attacked the Confederacy after Tennessee seceded from the Union. He was forced to cease publishing and was imprisoned, but he was enventually freed and was escorted to Union lines in March 1862. He toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including his gubernatorial policies, which helped Tennessee become the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
Governor of Tennessee; U.S. Senator.
Tennessee minister, politician, journalist; jailed as a Union sympathizer, 1861-1862; Tennessee governor, 1865-1869; U.S. senator, 1869-1875.
Governor of Tennessee; resident of Knoxville, Tenn.
U.S. Senator, governor of Tennessee, Methodist minister, and editor of the Tennessee Whig newspaper. Known as "the fighting parson," Brownlow was the leader of Union sympathizers during the Civil War.
Rev. William Gannaway Brownlow was a Methodist minister, newspaper editor, governor and senator from Tennessee, and a Unionist in the Civil War.
U.S. senator and governor of Tennessee and editor.
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