Browne, Thomas M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 19, 1829, in New Paris, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for the thirteenth judicial circuit of the state of Indiana from 1855 to 1861; was secretary of the state senate in 1861, and a state senator in 1863. He entered the union army as lieutenantcolonel, during the war of the rebellion, and was promoted to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He was United States attorney for the district of Indiana from 1869 to 1872; and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of the state in 1872. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a republican.