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Brown, Only Governor
To Serve 4 Consecutive Terms
In 1357 the news was brought
a young Georgia judge on his
County farm near Can-
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ton that the Democratic State
Convention at Milledgeville had
nominated him to run for Cover-
FHE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1949
nor against Benjamin H. Hill
Little did the people of Georgia
know then about the unusual
farmer-judge who was to defeat
the great Hill and become their
War Governor and in addition the
only Georgia Governor to serve
four consecutive terms in the of-
school of his own in Cherokee I
and County. He taught school by day j
studied law by night and
soon pulled himself out of debt, i
He later attended and graduated |
from the Yale Law School. Joseph
E. Brown was admitted to the i
Court bar in judge 1845 and of was a Cherokee Superior { !
the
Circuit tical hustings when called by Georgia to the Demo- poli- j j
crats in 1857. r
try, Of Joseph the rugged E. Brown fronties up-coun- J j
was never
involved in slavery, and was a j
staunch believer in human free- j
dom. He fought steadfastly for
Southern independence until the t
end of the Confederacy. During
the War Between the States, as
Georgia’s governor, he acted in¬
dependently of the Confederate
Government whenever possible
fice. This man who was to af
feet the destiny of the people of
the State for several decades I
through secssion, war, reconstruc- j
tion, and rehabilitation into a [
“New South” was Joseph Emer- j
son Brown of whom fiery Bob
Toombs asked without surprise in j
1857 “Who is Joe Brown?” A
few years later, after his decisive
triumph over the eloquent Ben
Hill and during his bitter contro¬
versies with the administration of
Jefferson Davis, the name Joe
Brown not only meant mtich in
Georgia but rocked the entire
Confederacy.
It might be said with consid¬
erable accuracy that Joseph E.
Brown was Georgia’s last fron¬
tier statesman. He was a man of I
the people own way, a man of
complete simplicity believing in i
the utmost democracy. Born in
Pickens County, South Carolina j
in 1821, Joseph E. Brown was the
eldest of eleven children. Of a
i poor family, he had to make his
j a own youth, way. his While family Joe moved Brown was
across
the mounttains to Union County, j
Georgia and settled in a valley
called Gaddistown. Still unfami
j liar with real education at the
age of 19, his father let him go
j on his own to seek learning. Pre
senting a yoke of steers as pay¬
ment for eight months board,
young Brown began working his
way through a South Carolina j
Academy. Unable to finish school j
due to lack of funds, he returned j
to Georgia and later opened a
and was perhaps the bitterest
foremost critic of President
ferson Davis. When Sherman’s
army overran Milledgeville on the
March to the Sea and Macon serv
ed temporarily as the seat
Georgia's government, Governor
Brown addressed the final Gen
eral Assembly of the War in Ma
old city hall. He also
vocated that Georgia secede from
the Confederacy as she had done
from the Union. Joseph E.
Brown had been fiery and early
for secession in having Fort
Pulaski near Savannah seized in
January, 1861 even before the
State left the Union. When the
War was over and the Confed
eracy and slavery both lost causes,
Brown was quickly and as ardent
ly for immediate reconciliation
and recognition of the political
results of the war including legal
and voting rights for the Negroes,
At first he stood almost alone for
these things among prominent ex
Confederates in the State. This
cost him his popularity in Geor¬
gia for several years. However,
the wisdom of his conciliatory
course was later apparent. In
1880, he was appointed by Gover¬
nor Alfred Holt Colquitt, a close
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friend, to fill the vacancy in the
United States Senate occasioned
ky the resignation of Senator
J°hn B. Gordon. The alignment
; i n Georgia politics of these three
friends was known as the Gor
don-Colquitt-Brown “Triumvir-
1 an( i ruled Georgia from the
restoration of native rule follow
i n S the War until the period of
Populism which came in the
j ‘nirteties. Brown was later elect
j ed to the legislature and remain
; ed in the Senate until 1891 at
J his which time he retired to devote
I time to business enterprises
j in Georgia. He became associated
with Big Business in the State on
vas t scale.
Joseph E. Brown was instru
mental in the development of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad and
| was factor a trustee of the University and financial bene
of Geor
j gia. He was a Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Georgia
during Reconstruction. After his
return to the Democratic Party
at the close of Reconstruction,
Brown joined a faction know as
“the New Departure”, which in¬
cluded those Democrats who “un
reconsturcted rebel” philosophy
long espoused by Robert Toombs
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