George H. Browne

George H. Browne

George Huntington Browne (born January 6, 1818 in Glocester , Providence County , Rhode Island , †  September 26, 1885 in Providence , Rhode Island) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Browne attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1840 Brown University in Providence. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1843, he began practicing his new profession in Providence. In 1842 he was a member of an assembly to revise the Charter General Assembly , which was convened as a result of the Dorr uprising, which was about issues of the right to vote.

Between 1849 and 1852 Browne was an MP in the Rhode Island House of Representatives and between 1852 and 1861 he was the District Attorney for the Rhode Island District. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was started in 1860 as a delegate to two Democratic National Convention in part, in Charleston ( South Carolina ) for the southern Democrats and in Baltimore ( Maryland took place) for the northern Democrats. In the spring of 1861, Browne was a delegate to a peace conference in Washington that tried unsuccessfully to prevent the outbreak of the civil war .

In the congressional elections of 1860 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a joint candidate for the Democrats and the short-lived Constitutional Union Party in the second district of Rhode Island. There he replaced William Daniel Brayton on March 4, 1861 . In 1861, he turned down an offered appointment to governor of the Arizona Territory . While still in Congress , he entered the Civil War in 1862 as a colonel in a volunteer unit from Rhode Island on the Union side. He took part in several battles with varying success. After he was not confirmed in the elections of 1862, Browne had to resign on March 3, 1863 from Congress.

Between 1872 and 1873, Browne was a member of the Rhode Island Senate . In 1874 he was appointed presiding judge of his state's Supreme Court. Browne has declined this appeal. He died in Providence in September 1885 and was buried there.

Remarks

1. ^ Browne's year of birth is given in the biography of Congress as 1811. However, since the year of his birth can clearly be read as 1818 on his tombstone, it can be assumed that he was born in 1818.

Web links

• George H. Browne in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• George H. Browne in the database of Find a Grave (English)