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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...
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    a polemical American newspaper published and edited by William G. "Parson" Brownlow (1805–1877) in the mid-nineteenth century. As its name implies, the...
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    to elect the governor of Tennessee. Incumbent Republican governor Parson Brownlow defeated Conservative nominee Emerson Etheridge with 76.85% of the...
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    Brownlow was the son of East Tennessee preacher and politician Parson Brownlow. James P. Brownlow served in several positions in the Union Army, finishing the...
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    candidate Parson Brownlow was nominated for governor by a convention of Tennessee Unionists in January 1865. He was the only nominee. On March 4, Brownlow was...
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    government administrator, and real estate developer. The older of Parson Brownlow's two sons, Brownlow was a Southern Unionist who served as colonel in the United...
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    elect the next governor of Tennessee. Incumbent Republican governor Parson Brownlow was elected to the United States Senate and resigned as governor on...
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    occupy East Tennessee. A pro-Union newspaper publisher, William G. "Parson" Brownlow, used the arrests and hangings as propaganda in his 1862 anti-secession...
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    Indiana, was the grandfather of novelist Booth Tarkington. William G. "Parson" Brownlow, Tennessee's radical newspaper publisher, noted book author, American...
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    Tribune from 1876 to 1910. Brownlow was a nephew of Tennessee's radical post-Civil War governor, William "Parson" Brownlow. Brownlow was born in Abingdon,...
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