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Mar 27, 1851 Abingdon, Virginia, United States Died on 08 Jul 1910 (aged 59)
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About Walter P. Brownlow
- Walter Preston Brownlow (March 27, 1851 – July 8, 1910) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 1st district in the U.S.
- House of Representatives from 1897 until his death in 1910.
- He is remembered for obtaining large federal appropriations for his district, as well as for his intraparty political battles with Chattanoogans Henry Clay Evans and Newell Sanders over control of the state Republican Party.
- Along with his congressional tenure, Brownlow served as Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883, and published the Jonesboro Herald and Tribune from 1876 to 1910.Brownlow was a nephew of Tennessee's radical post-Civil War governor, William "Parson" Brownlow.
