Walter P. Brownlow

Walter P. Brownlow

Walter Preston Brownlow (born March 27, 1851 in Abingdon , Washington County , Virginia , †  July 8, 1910 in Johnson City , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1910 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Brownlow was a nephew of US Senator and Governor William Gannaway Brownlow (1805–1877). He attended the public schools in his home country and was already working as an errand boy for a telegraph office at the age of ten. Then he did an apprenticeship in the canning industry. He later became a train driver for some time. From 1876 Brownlow was active in the newspaper industry. He worked briefly as a reporter and then bought the Herald and Tribune newspaper in Jonesborough .

Politically, Brownlow became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1880 and 1904 he was a delegate to five Republican National Conventions . In 1881 he served as a postman in Jonesborough for a few months . He was then employed by the administration of Congress as a door keeper from 1881 to 1883 ; he succeeded Charles William Field . In this role he controlled access to Congress. He was a member of the Republican National Committee in 1884, 1896, and 1900 .

In the congressional elections of 1896 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded William Coleman Anderson on March 4, 1897 . After six re-elections, he could remain in the US House of Representatives until his death on July 8, 1910. The Spanish-American War took place during this period . At that time the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration. From 1902 to 1910 he was also a board member of the Jonesborough Veterans Office, which he helped found in 1901. During his time in the US House of Representatives, he managed to get about eight million dollars from the federal budget for his electoral district.

Web links

• Walter P. Brownlow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter P. Brownlow in the database of Find a Grave (English)