Brown, William G
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1801, in Preston county, Va. In 1832 he was elected to the legislature of Virginia; served again in that capacity from 1840 to 1843; and and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1845 to 1849. In 1850 he was a member of the Virginia state convention; in 1860 a delegate to the Charleston convention, and also to that held in Baltimore; and was also a delegate to the Virginia convention of 1861, and opposed the action of the secessionists. On his return home he was elected a representative to the thirtyseventh congress; and in 1863 was reelected to the thirty-eighth congress as a representative from West Virginia.