Albert Gallatin Brown

U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1839-1841
Governor, Mississippi, 1844-1848
U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1847-1853
U. S. Senator, Mississippi, 1854-1861
Confederate Senator, Mississippi, 1862-1865

Born: May 31, 1813, Chester District, South Carolina

• Moved with his parents to Copiah County, Mississippi, 1823.
  
• Attended Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, and Jefferson College, Washington, Mississippi.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1833
  
• Commenced law practice in Gallatin, Mississippi.
  
• Member of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1835-1839.
  
• Elected from Mississippi as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth U. S. Congress, March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841.
  
• Declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1840.
  
• Judge of the Mississippi Circuit Superior Court, 1842-1843.
  
• Governor, Mississippi, 1844-1848.
  
• Elected from Mississippi to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1847 - March 3, 1853.
  
• Was not a candidate for re-election in 1852.
  
• Elected to the U. S. Senate, 1854, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1853.
  
• Re-elected, 1859, serving from January 7, 1854 - January 12, 1861, when he withdrew.
  
• During the Civil War he entered the Confederate Army as a Captain, Company H, Eighteenth Mississippi Infantry.
  
• Elected from Mississippi as a member of the Confederate Senate, 1862, serving in the First and Second Confederate Congresses.
  
• After the Civil War, engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Died: June 12, 1880, near Terry, Hinds County, Mississippi.
Buried: Greenwood Cemetetery, Jackson, Mississippi.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)