Thomas M. Browne

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Thomas M. Browne

Thomas McLelland Browne (born April 19, 1829 in New Paris , Preble County , Ohio , †  July 17, 1891 in Winchester , Indiana ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1877 and 1891 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Browne attended public schools in his home country. In January 1844 he came to Indiana, where he had lived in the city of Winchester since 1848. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1849, he began to work there in his new profession. Between 1855 and 1861 he was a District Attorney in the 13th Judicial District of Indiana. In 1861 he served as an administrative clerk with the Indiana Senate , of which he became a member in 1863.

Since 1863 Browne took as an officer in the Union army on the civil war in part. He rose from captain to colonel and then to brevet brigadier general. Between 1869 and 1872 he was Alfred Kilgore's successor as a federal prosecutor for Indiana. Politically, Browne was a member of the Republican Party . In 1872 he ran for governor of Indiana, but was defeated by the Democrat Thomas A. Hendricks with a deficit of just under 1,100 votes . In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , on which Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as a candidate for president.

In the congressional election of 1876 , Browne was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded William S. Holman on March 4, 1877 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1891 . Since 1881 he represented there as the successor to William R. Myers, the sixth district of his state. From 1881 to 1883 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with disability benefits; from 1889 to 1891 he headed the committee for the revision of the laws.

In 1890 Thomas Browne renounced another congressional candidacy. He died on July 17, 1891 in Winchester, where he was also buried.

Web links

  • Thomas M. Browne in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Browne, Thomas M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Browne, Thomas McLelland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH New Paris , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1891
Place of death Winchester , Indiana