John Bell Brownlow
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John Bell Brownlow was an American military officer, newspaper editor, government administrator, and real estate developer. The older of Parson Brownlow's two sons, Brownlow was a Southern Unionist wh
John Bell Brownlow, U.S. Army cavalry from Tennessee
Brownlow in later life
Parson Brownlow
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William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Tennessee from 186
John Bell Brownlow
…19, 1839 – October 26, 1922) was an American military officer, newspaper editor, 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 States (Union) cavalry in the Civil War. After the war, he joined his…
William Gannaway Brownlow cropped
Engraving from Brownlow's book The Great Iron Wheel Examined, showing a Baptist minister changing clothes in front of horrified women after administering a baptism by immersion.
Ad in an 1848 issue of the Jonesborough Whig, attacking presidential candidate Lewis Cass
Brownlow as he appeared on the frontispiece of his 1856 book, The Great Iron Wheel Examined