Neill S. Brown
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Neill Smith Brown was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 12th governor of Tennessee from 1847 to 1849, and as the United States Minister to Russia from 1850 to 1853. He also served
Daguerreotype of Brown by Mathew Brady, c. 1849
Portrait of Brown by Washington Bogart Cooper c. 1849
John C. Brown
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John Calvin Brown was a Confederate Army officer and an American politician and businessman. Although he originally opposed secession, Brown fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, e
Neill S. Brown
…attended the state constitutional convention of 1870, which composed the current Constitution of Tennessee. He also campaigned for his younger brother, John C. Brown, who served as governor of Tennessee from 1871 to 1875. Brown died on January 30, 1886, and is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee…
Brown in uniform, c. 1862
Governor Brown's home in Pulaski (present-day Grissom Colonial Hall)
Portrait of Brown as governor