Reese Bowen Brabson

Reese Bowen Brabson ( born September 16, 1817 Sevier County, Tennessee; † August 16, 1863 in Chattanooga, Tennessee ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Reese Brabson was born on the family plantation " Brabsons Ferry". He attended the Academy Dandridge and thereafter until 1840, the Maryville College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar he began in Chattanooga to work in his new profession. In addition, he was still engaged in agriculture.

Brabson also suggested a political career. In the years 1851 and 1852 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Tennessee. He was a member of the short-lived opposition party. In the congressional elections of 1858 he was appointed as their candidate for the third constituency of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Axley Smith on March 4, 1859. Since he resigned in 1860 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1861. This was shaped by the events and tensions in the immediate run-up to the Civil War.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Reese Brabson again worked as a lawyer. He died on August 16, 1863 in Chattanooga. His nephew Charles K. Bell (1853-1913) was of 1893-1897 the State of Texas in Congress.