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Brownlee, William R

journalist, state senator, was born Oct. 14, 1846, in Coitsville, Ohio. In 1880 he was nominated and elected state senator to the Indiana legislature. BROWNLOW, WALTER PRESTON, journalist, congressman, was born March 27, 1851, in Abingdon, Va. In 1876 he purchased the Herald and Tribune, a republican newspaper, published at Jonesboro, of which he has been the editor and proprietor since.

In 1882 he was elected a member of the republican state committee and served as a member of said committee for eight years, two of which he was its chairman. He was appointed postmaster at Jonesboro in 1881. He was a delegate from the state at large to the republican national convention of 1884, and favored the nomination of James G. Blaine; and was unanimously selected at that time by the delegation from his state as Tennessee's member of the national committee. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a protectionist republican. BROWNLOW, WILLIAM GANNAWAY, clergyman, journalist, governor, author, was born Aug. 29, 1805, in Wythe county, Va. He was a methodist preacher and journalist of Knoxville, Tenn.; conspicuous for his fidelity to the union during the civil war; and known as Parson Brownlow. At the close of the war he served two terms as governor of his state. He was the author of The Iron Wheel Examined and Its False Spokes Extracted, a reply to attacks upon methodism; Ought American Slavery to Be Perpetuated; and Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession. He died April 29, 1877, in Knoxville, Tenn.