Albert Gallatin Brown
Born: May 31, 1813
Birthplace: Chester, South Carolina
Father: Joseph Brown 1778 – 1844
(Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Smyrna, Mississippi)
Mother: Elizabeth Rice 1787 – 1855
(Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Smyrna, Mississippi)
1st Wife: Elizabeth Francis Thornton Taliaferro 1817 – 1836
(Buried: Springhill Plantation Cemetery, Hazelhurst, Mississippi)
2nd Wife: Roberta Eugenia Young 1817 – 1886
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi)
Children:
Colonel Robert Young Brown 1841 – 1866
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi)
Political Party: Democratic Party
Education:
Attended Mississippi College
Attended Jefferson College
Occupation before War:
1833 – 1839: Attorney in Gallatin, Mississippi
1835 – 1839: Mississippi State Representative
1839 – 1841: United States Congressman from Mississippi
1839 – 1841: Member of House Post Offices and Post Roads Committee
1840: Declined to run for re-nomination to U.S. Congress.
1842 – 1843: Judge of Superior Court in Mississippi
1844 – 1848: Governor of Mississippi
1847 – 1853: United States Congressman from Mississippi
1847 – 1849: Member of House District of Columbia Committee
1849 – 1851: Ranking Member of House District of Columbia Committee
1854 – 1861: United States Senator from Mississippi
1854 – 1859: Member of Senate Indian Affairs Committee
1855 – 1861: Chairman of Senate District of Columbia Committee
1859 – 1861: Chairman of Senate Enrolled Bills Committee
1861: Withdrew from United States Senate on March 14th
Civil War Career:
1861: Recruited a company of the 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1861: Captain in 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1861: Participated in the First Battle of Manassas, Virginia
1862 – 1865: Confederate States Senator from Mississippi
1862 – 1865: Chairman of Senate Naval Affairs Committee
1862: Member of Senate Inauguration Committee
Believed the Confederacy possessed almost unlimited war powers
1863: Introduced series of resolutions calling for total commitment to victory.
He supported his country first and then settle constitutional constructions.
Introduced bill restricting cotton production
Believer of drafting all men capable of bearing arms.
Believer of establishing a volunteer navy for privateering
Supporter of drafting and emancipating 200,000 slaves.
Occupation after War:
Advised Mississippi “to meet congress on its own platform and shake hands”
1865 – 1880: Farmer near Hinds County, Mississippi
Died: June 12, 1880
Place of Death: Terry, Mississippi
Cause of Death: Apoplexy
Age at time of Death: 67 years old
Burial Place: Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi
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