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
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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
Dewitt Clinton Senter
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Dewitt Clinton Senter was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871. He had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives, where he opposed se
Parson Brownlow
…Parson Brownlow, August 1871 After his Senate term ended in 1875, Brownlow returned to Knoxville. Governor Dewitt Clinton Senter had undone most of his Radical initiatives, allowing Democrats to regain control of the state government. Having sold the Whig in 1869, Brownlow purchased…
Portrait of Governor De Witt C. Senter
Senter’s grave in Morristown, Tennessee.