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William Gannaway " Parson " Brownlow ( August 29, 1805April 29, 1877 ) was an American newspaper editor, minister, and politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.
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Joseph Brownlow, an itinerant farmer, died in 1816, and Catherine Gannaway followed three months later, leaving William orphaned at the age of 10.
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* William Gannaway Brownlow: publisher of the Knoxville Whig ; Tennessee Governor ; U. S. Senator
Professor William Trigg Gannaway was appointed president pro tempore.
* William Gannaway Brownlow ( 1805 – 1877 ), governor of Tennessee
* William Trigg Gannaway ( 1825 – 1902 ), university president
William and Parson
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at 70 Parson Street, Glasgow on 7 June 1868, the fourth of twelve children and second son of William and Margaret McIntosh.
William " Parson " Brownlow, the radical publisher of the Knoxville Whig, was one of the region's leading anti-secessionists ( although he defended the practice of slavery ).
The well-established railroad brought numerous pro-secessionist and anti-secessionist speakers to the county, including Andrew Johnson, Horace Maynard, John Bell, and William " Parson " Brownlow.
William " Parson " Brownlow delivers an anti-secession speech in Sevierville in 1861
In the 1840s, Jonesborough was home to the Jonesborough Whig, a polemical newspaper published by William G. " Parson " Brownlow.
* ‘ Doctor Fludds Answer vnto M. Foster, or, The Sqvesing of Parson Fosters Sponge ,’ & c., London, 1631, ( defence of weapon-salve, against the ‘ Hoplocrisma-Spongus ,’ 1631, of William Foster, of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire ); an edition in Latin, ‘ Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum ,’ & c., Gouda, 1638.
The Whig was a polemical American newspaper published and edited by William G. " Parson " Brownlow ( 1805 – 1877 ) in the mid-nineteenth century.
), with issue ; her second husband was John Stewart, Lord Darnley, Prior of Coldingham, by whom she had Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell ; her third husband the notorious Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas, a Senator of the College of Justice, and brother of William Douglas of Whittinghame.
Knoxville Whig editor William " Parson " Brownlow, who had been one of slavery's most outspoken defenders, attacked secessionism with equal fervor, and embarked on a speaking tour of the Northern states to rally support for East Tennessee.
The Radical Republican post-war policies of Governor William " Parson " Brownlow greatly polarized the state along party lines, with East Tennesseans mostly supporting Brownlow and Middle and West Tennesseans mostly rejecting him.
* Roberts, Ursula ( 1955 ) Portrait of a Parson ; by Susan Miles London: Allen & Unwin ( William Corbett Roberts, 1873 – 1953, rector of St George's )
William and Brownlow
It has a robust plaster-work ceiling incorporating the Brownlow crest by the London plasterer Edward Goudge, " now looked on as ye best master in England in his profession ," William Winde reported in 1690.
* Sir William Brownlow ( 1665 – 1702 ).
* James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 1791 – 1868 )
* James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 26 February 1858 – 18 June 1859 )
About 1610, during the Plantation and at a time when the area was sparsely populated by Gaelic peoples, the lands of Lurgan were given to the English lord William Brownlow and his family.
William Brownlow died in 1660, but the family went on to contribute to the development of the linen industry which peaked in the town in the late 17th century.
Following passage of the Catholic Relief Act, Charles Brownlow granted a site to the Roman Catholic parish priest the Reverend William O ' Brien in 1829 for the construction of a church on Distillery Hill, now known as lower North Street.
Initially it had a multi-denominational intake, offered such services as night classes and industry-relevant vocational courses, and was enthusiastically supported by William Brownlow who is thought to have brought the school to the town.
* G. G. Bonnyman ( 1969 ), " Some Themes in the Early Life of William G. Brownlow ", thesis, Princeton University
He became disenchanted when the party snubbed Clay in favor of William Henry Harrison in 1840 and by 1842, Brownlow had turned outright hostile toward Harrison's successor, John Tyler.
In 1857, the Whig quarrelled with the radical Southern Citizen, published by Knoxville businessman William G. Swan and Irish Patriot John Mitchel, and Brownlow spent at least one night parading in front of Swan's home while brandishing a revolver.
During the same period, Brownlow blasted the officers of the failed Bank of East Tennessee, namely William Churchwell, J. G. M. Ramsey, and John H. Crozier, and accused them of swindling money from low-level depositers to pay the bank's wealthy creditors.
It remained in the Brownlow family until 1853 when it was sold to the Irish antiquary, Dr William Reeves.
William and August
William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.
On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.
William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
Under Sir William Balfour, they broke through the Royalist lines on the night of 31 August, eventually reaching Plymouth 30 miles to the east.
* Otis, Alison T., William D. Honey, Thomas C. Hogg, and Kimberly K. Lakin The Forest Service and The Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-42 ( United States Forest Service FS-395, August 1986 ) online
" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.
Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.
When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.
* The Climate Contrarians August 16, 2012 by S. Fred Singer, reply by William D. Nordhaus in The New York Review of Books
Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.
Frederick William would frequently mistreat Fritz ( he preferred his younger sibling August William ).
In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.
In August 1687 Count William Nassau de Zuylestein was sent to England, ostensibly to send condolences due to the death of the queen's mother.
Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks ( August 12, 1899-January 2, 1930 ), William Bellinger Hawks ( January 29, 1901-January 10, 1969 ), Grace Louise Hawks ( October 17, 1903-December 23, 1927 ) and Helen Bernice Hawks ( 1906-May 4, 1911 ).
In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
On the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.
When, on 2 August 1100, William II was killed by an arrow in a hunting accident in the New Forest, where Henry was also hunting, Duke Robert had not yet returned from the First Crusade.
# William Adelin, ( 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120 ).
The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.
On 25 August 1476 in Berlin John married Margaret of Wettin, a daughter of Landgrave William III of Thuringia with Anne of Habsburg, Duchess of Luxembourg.
* Christian William ( 28 August 1587 – 1 January 1665 )
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