George H. Browne
George Huntington Browne ( born January 6, 1818 in Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Iceland, † September 26, 1885 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Browne attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1840, the Brown University in Providence. After studying law and its made in 1843 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Providence. In 1842 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the National Assembly ( Charter General Assembly ), which was convened as a result of the Dorr Rebellion, in which it came to questions of suffrage.
Between 1849 and 1852, Browne MP in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland and 1852-1861 he was United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Iceland. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was started in 1860 as a delegate to two Democratic National Convention, which took place in Charleston (South Carolina) for the southern Democrats and in Baltimore (Maryland ) for the northern Democrats. In the spring of 1861 was Browne delegate to a peace conference in Washington, who tried unsuccessfully to prevent the outbreak of civil war.
In the congressional elections of 1860, he was elected as a Democratic candidate community and the short-lived Constitutional Union party in the second district of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from March 4, 1861 William Daniel Brayton. In 1861 he declined a position offered him appointment as Governor in the Arizona Territory. During his time in Congress, he joined in 1862 as a colonel of a volunteer unit from Rhode Iceland on the Union side in the Civil War a. He participated in several battles with varying success in part. After he was not confirmed in the elections of 1862, Browne was eliminated on 3 March 1863 the Congress.
Between 1872 and 1873 Browne was a member of the Senate of Rhode Iceland. In 1874 he was appointed presiding judge at his state Supreme Court. Browne has used this appeal rejected. He died in September 1885 in Providence, and was also buried there.