Benjamin Gratz Brown

United States Senate, List of Governors of Missouri, Liberal Republican Party (United States)
Herausgegeben:Victorino, Terrence James

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Benjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party Vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.Brown was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1826. He was the grandson of Senators John Brown and Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky. He graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1845 and from Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1847. He studied law, and later settled in St. Louis, Missouri. There he joined his cousin, Francis P. Blair, Jr., and Senator Thomas Hart Benton in a struggle against the pro-slavery faction for control of Missouri's Democratic Party.Brown became a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and served there between 1852 and 1858. An able lawyer in St. Louis, Brown made a speech in 1857 against a joint resolution opposing emancipation

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Log Press
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786137775141
• ISBN-10: 6137775143
• Artikelnr.: 34498621