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Brown, Albert Gallatin

lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born May 31, 1813, in Chester District, S. C.

He was a representative in congress from Mississippi in 1840 and 1841; governor of Mississippi from 1844 to 1848; and was again elected a representative in congress from 1848 to 1854. He was a judge of the circuit superior court in 1852 and 1853; was elected a United States senator from 1854 to 1858; and was re-elected for six years, commencing March 4, 1859, but was expelled in March, 1861, and joined the great rebellion. He died June 12, 1880, near Jacksonville, Miss.