Albert G. Brown

Albert G. Brown

Infobox Senator
name=Albert Gallatin Brown



jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Mississippi
term=January 7, 1854ndash January 12, 1861
preceded=Walker Brooke
succeeded=Hiram R. Revels
date of birth=birth date|1813|5|31|mf=y
place of birth=Chester County, South Carolina, U.S.
date of death=death date and age|1880|6|12|1813|5|31|mf=y
place of death=Terry, Mississippi, U.S.
spouse=
profession=Politician, Lawyer
party=Democrat

Albert Gallatin Brown (May 31, 1813ndash June 12, 1880) was Governor of Mississippi from 1844 to 1848 and a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1854 through 1861. Brown attended Mississippi College. He was a Democrat.

Albert was one of the most popular and influential man in the state of Mississippi his time. He is considered the father of the public school system and the University of Mississippi. His rhetorical attacks on illiteracy will live forever as classic contributions to the cause of Education in Mississippi.

"Albert Gallatin Brown possessed a magnetic personality. With an open, handsome continence, surrounded by a luxuriant, flowing beard and dark-curly hair, in every sense he looked distinguished. Courageous, he was void of vanity; animated, he was persuasive.” In his speech, Reuben Davis, who knew him well, states in his book, Reminiscences on Mississippi and Mississippians, that Brown "was the best balanced man I ever knew...In politics he had strategy with-out corruption, and handled all his opponents with skill but never descended to intrigue"." During a lifetime most of which was spent in an epoch of bitter controversy, his most intimate friends never heard him speak ill of others.

Overcome by a stroke of apoplexy, he fell face down in a shallow pond at his home near Terry, in 1880, and his last remains rest in Greenwood Cemetery at Jackson. For thirty years, he produced a record in public service that illuminates the pages of history.

Albert was three terms in the State Legislature, four in the national Congress, once on the circuit bench, twice elected United States senator, serving two administrations as Governor and chosen senator in the Confederate Congress, the political career of Albert Gallatin Brown provides one of the most amazing chapters in Mississippi history." ("Mississippi State Builders" by Clayton Rand).

Albert's first wife was Elizabeth Frances Thornton Taliaferro (1817-1836) of Virginia, who died about five months after the marriage. Elizabeth was the daughter of Richard Henry Taliaferro, Sr. (1783-1830) and Frances Walker Gilmer (ca. 1784-1826)

Albert married as his second wife, Roberta Eugenia Young (1813-1886), daughter of Brig. Gen. Robert Young (1768-1824) and Elizabeth Mary Conrad (1772-1810).

Roberta's older sister was Elizabeth Mary Young (1804-1859), who was the wife of Philip Richard Fendall II (1794-1867), the District Attorney of the District of Columbia.

ee also

;Places named for Albert Brown:*Brown County, Kansas

###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
before=Tilghman Tucker
title=Governor of Mississippi
after=Joseph W. Matthews
years=1844ndash 1848
U.S. Senator box
state=Mississippi
class=2
before=Walker Brooke
after=Hiram R. Revels(1)
alongside=Stephen Adams and Jefferson Davis
years=January 7, 1854ndash January 12, 1861
s-ttl |title=Confederate States Senator from Mississippi
years = February 18, 1862ndash May 10, 1865
alongside = James Phelan, Sr. and John William Clark Watson


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