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Gordon Weaver Browning (* 22. November 1889 im Carroll County, Tennessee; † 23. Mai 1976 in Huntingdon, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und 42. sowie 45. Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Tennessee. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Frühe Jahre und politischer Aufstieg. 2 Gouverneur von Tennessee. 3 Lebensende und Tod. 4 Weblinks.
Gordon Weaver Browning (November 22, 1889 – May 23, 1976) was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. He also served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives , from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s.
- Oak Hill Cemetery, Huntingdon, Tennessee
- Democratic
- 1917–1919, 1943–1947
8. Okt. 2017 · Gordon W. Browning, three-term governor and U.S. congressman, was born in Carroll County in 1895. He attended local schools and opened a law practice in Huntingdon in 1915. He served in the National Guard in World War I. In 1922 he entered politics, winning a congressional seat and serving six consecutive terms with little opposition ...
Gordon Browning and Tennessee Politics: 1937-1939* By William R. Majors. Tennessee has had a tradition of colorful political leaders. The. subject of this narrative, Governor Gordon Browning, is such an individual. He was born in 1889 on a small farm in Carroll County.
Rector. Steely. Williams. By Ray Hill. Gordon Browning was a veteran of Tennessee’s turbulent and oftentimes brutal political wars. Browning had unseated a twenty-four year incumbent in his first race for Congress in 1920, although he lost the general election to a Republican.
Gordon Weaver Browning (November 22, 1889 – May 23, 1976) was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. He also served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s.
Gordon Browning and Tennessee Politics: 1949 - 1953 By William R. Majors On January 17, 1949, Gordon Browning was inaugurated Gover-nor of Tennessee, ten years to the day from his departure from that office in 1939. He had been elected Governor in 1936 by an overwhelming vote. He launched a reform administration in 1937
