Thomas M. Browne

Thomas McLelland Browne ( born April 19, 1829 in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio; † July 17, 1891 in Winchester, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1891 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Browne attended the public schools of his home. In January 1844, he came to Indiana, where he lived in the city of Winchester since 1848. After studying law and its made ​​in 1849 admitted to the bar he began to work there in his new profession. Between 1855 and 1861 he was a prosecutor in the 13th Judicial District of Indiana. In 1861, he served as Clerk to the Senate of Indiana, whose member he was in 1863.

Since 1863, Browne took as an officer in the army of the Union part in the civil war. He rose from captain to colonel and then to brevet brigadier general on. From 1869 to 1872 he was United States Attorney for Indiana. Politically, Browne member of the Republican Party. In 1872 he ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was defeated with a gap of almost 1100 votes Democrat Thomas A. Hendricks. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati, was nominated at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Browne was in the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William S. Holman on March 4, 1877. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 seven legislative sessions. Since 1881 he represented there as a follower of William R. Myers sixth district of his state. From 1881 to 1883 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with disability compensation; 1889 to 1891 he headed the committee to revise the laws.

In 1890 Thomas Browne gave up another Congress candidate. He died on 17 July 1891 in Winchester, where he was also buried.