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William Gannaway Brownlow (né le 29 août 1805 dans le comté de Wythe et mort le 29 avril 1877 à Knoxville) est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti whig, puis du Parti républicain, il est gouverneur du Tennessee de 1865 à 1869 et sénateur des États-Unis de 1869 à 1875.
William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (August 29, 1805 – April 29, 1877) was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.
8 oct. 2017 · He was a major southern advocate for the Sons of Temperance and a prominent apologist for slavery. Brownlow also promoted commercial interests in East Tennessee. Most significantly, the Parson stood in the front ranks of southerners who rejected secession and the Confederacy.
26 oct. 2018 · The controversial politician William Gannaway Brownlow shepherded Tennessee's re-admission to the Union. It was the first state of the Confederacy to do so.
18 mai 2018 · The American preacher William Gannaway Brownlow (1805-1877) became the voice of strongly pro-Union East Tennessee before and during the Civil War through his speeches, writings, and news papers. He was known as "the fighting parson."
In the late 1840s, Ross began quarreling with Methodist minister and Whig newspaper publisher William Gannaway Brownlow. Ross had earlier "declared war" on Methodism as a co-editor in his Calvinist Magazine.
William Gannaway Brownlow (né le 29 août 1805 dans le comté de Wythe et mort le 29 avril 1877 à Knoxville) est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti whig, puis du Parti républicain, il est gouverneur du Tennessee de 1865 à 1869 et sénateur des États-Unis de 1869 à 1875.
