Beeson, Helen S. "Walter P. Brownlow, Republican." Masters thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1967.
BROWNLOW, Walter Preston
1851–1910
Biography
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.
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Knox County Public Library
C.M. McClung Historical Collection
Knoxville, TN
Papers:
1882-1894, 1 box.
The papers of Walter Preston Brownlow contain personal and political correspondence (chiefly Aug.-Oct. 1893), together with primary election returns (1884) from Grainger and Hamblen Counties, Tennessee.
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Bibliography / Further Reading
Brownlow, Walter Preston. Address of Hon. W.P. Brownlow to the voters of the First Congressional District of Tennessee. N.p., 1908.
------. "Civil-service reform." Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
------. Four years of the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1897.
United States. Congress (61st, 3d session: 1910-1911). Walter P. Brownlow (late a Representative from Tennessee); memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, Sixty-first Congress, third session. Proceedings in the House, February 19, 1911. Proceedings in the Senate, December 6, 1910. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Commission on Printing. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.