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BROWNLOW, Walter Preston, (nephew of William Gannaway Brownlow),
a Representative from Tennessee; born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va.,
March 27, 1851; attended the common schools; employed as a telegraph messenger boy when only
ten years of age; became an apprentice in the tinning business at the age of fourteen and later became a
locomotive engineer; entered upon newspaper work as a reporter for the Knoxville Whig and
Chronicle in 1876; in the same year purchased the Herald and Tribune in Jonesboro, Tenn.; delegate
to the Republican National Conventions in 1880, 1884, 1896, 1900, and 1904; appointed postmaster
at Jonesboro in March 1881; resigned in the following December to accept the position of Doorkeeper
of the House of Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress and served in that capacity from 1881
to 1883; member of the Republican National Committee in 1884, 1896, and 1900; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until
his death; member of the Board of Managers for the National Soldiers Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers 1902-1910; died at the National Soldiers Home, Johnson City, Washington County, Tenn.,
July 8, 1910; interment in the Soldiers Home Cemetery.
BibliographyBeeson, Helen S. Walter P. Brownlow, Republican.
Masters thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1967.
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