JOSEPH EMERSON BROWN, LYING IN STATE Unidentified individuals paying tribute to former Georgia Governor and United States Senator Joseph E. Brown, whose body lies in state in the rotunda of the Georgia State Capitol Building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. JOSEPH E. BROWN, 1821 - 1894, OF UNION COUNTY, GEORGIA. Woody Gap School in Suches was built on the site of Joseph. E. Browns boyhood home then Gaddistown. Brown was the first Georgia official to support public education for all children which at the time did not have popular support. He was a School Teacher in Union County, Lawyer/Farmer, School Headmaster, State Senator, Circuit Judge, Trustee University of Georgia, Governor-U.S.A., Secessionist, Governor-C.S.A., Political Prisoner/Pardoned, President Atlanta Board of Education, Chief Justice, GA., U.S. Senator and Always, a man of the people
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 04:19:59 +0000
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