Joseph E. Brown

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Joseph E. Brown was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as Georgia’s Civil War governor and later as a U.S. senator.

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instanceOf human
politician
burialPlace Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Confederate States of America NERFINISHED
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1821-04-15
dateOfDeath 1894-11-30
educatedAt Union College (Schenectady, New York) NERFINISHED
Yale Law School
electedIn 1857 Georgia gubernatorial election NERFINISHED
1859 Georgia gubernatorial election NERFINISHED
1861 Georgia gubernatorial election NERFINISHED
1863 Georgia gubernatorial election NERFINISHED
electedTo United States Senate from Georgia NERFINISHED
employer Western and Atlantic Railroad NERFINISHED
endTime 1865-06-17
endTime (U.S. Senate) 1891
ethnicGroup White American
familyName Brown NERFINISHED
givenName Joseph NERFINISHED
memberOf Confederate States of America NERFINISHED
Georgia General Assembly NERFINISHED
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Party
Southern Rights Party NERFINISHED
middleName Emerson NERFINISHED
notableFor being Georgia’s Civil War governor
serving as a U.S. senator from Georgia
numberOfChildren 11
occupation judge
lawyer
politician
railroad executive
officeContested Governor of Georgia
opposed centralization of power by the Confederate government
placeOfBirth Pickens County, South Carolina NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Atlanta, Georgia NERFINISHED
positionHeld Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
Governor of Georgia
President of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
United States Senator NERFINISHED
religion Baptist
residence Atlanta, Georgia NERFINISHED
Canton, Georgia NERFINISHED
sexOrGender male
spouse Elizabeth Grisham Brown NERFINISHED
startTime 1857-11-06
startTime (U.S. Senate) 1880
supported secession of Georgia from the United States
wasGovernorDuring American Civil War NERFINISHED

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Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States notableBurial Joseph E. Brown
subject surface form: Oakland Cemetery