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BROWN, Albert Gallatin, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Chester District, S.C., May 31, 1813; moved with his
parents to Copiah County, Miss., in 1823; attended Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., and Jefferson College, Washington, Miss.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice
in Gallatin, Miss.Member, State house of representatives 1835-1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1840; judge of the circuit superior court 1842-1843; Governor of Mississippi 1844-1848; elected to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847-March
3, 1853); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1852; elected to the United States Senate in 1854 to fill the vacancy in
the term beginning March 4, 1853; reelected in 1859 and served from January 7, 1854, until January 12, 1861, when he withdrew; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-fourth
through Thirty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-sixth Congress); During the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as a captain; elected a member of the Confederate Senate
in 1862 and served in the First and Second Confederate Congresses; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died near Terry, Hinds County, Miss., June 12, 1880; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson,
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Albert Gallatin Brown (May 31, 1813 – 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.
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