Grand Old Partisan salutes Thomas Browne, born near Dayton, April 19th 1829. He moved to Indiana, then studied law and was elected county prosecutor. While a state senator, this young Republican denounced Democrat sympathies for the Confederacy.
Browne helped recruit the 7th Indiana Cavalry during the Civil War and enlisted as a captain. His regiment battled through Mississippi, Kansas, Missouri. Gallantry merited promotion to colonel.
President Ulysses Grant named him U.S. Attorney for Indiana. Browne resigned after three years to run for Governor. He was delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention. That year, he won the first of seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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