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Not to be confused with Albert Gallatin Jenkins, another Confederate historical figure also referenced in The Guns of the South.

Albert Gallatin Brown
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Historical Figure
Nationality: United States (Confederate States, 1861-1865)
Year of Birth: 1813
Year of Death: 1880
Cause of Death: Drowning accident resulting from a stroke
Religion: Protestantism
Occupation: Educator, farmer, politician
Parents: Joseph Brown;
Elizabeth Rice
Spouse: Elizabeth Frances Thornton Taliaferro (d. 1836);
Roberta Eugenia Young
Children: Robert (d. 1866)
Political Party: Democratic Party
Political Office(s): United States Representative from Mississippi (1839-1841; 1847-1953)
Governor of Mississippi (1844-1848)
United States Senator from Mississippi
Fictional Appearances:
The Guns of the South
POD: January 17, 1864
Nationality: Confederate States
Date of Death: 1868
Cause of Death: Assassination by firearm
Political Party: Confederate Party
Political Office(s): Confederate States Senator from Mississippi
Vice President of the Confederate States

Albert Gallatin Brown (May 31, 1813 – June 12, 1880) was an American educator and politician in the Democratic Party. He served as Governor of Mississippi (1844-1848), a U.S. Representative (1839-1841 and 1847-1853), and a U.S. Senator (1854-1861). During his lifetime, Brown was one of the most popular and the most influential Mississippians. A champion of literacy for all white people, he helped to establish a public school system and the University of Mississippi. He was also a "fire eater" who advocated with an almost religious fervor for the expansion of the American slave economy into the "Golden Circle" of Mexico, Cuba, and Central America.

When Mississippi seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States, Brown served first as a captain in the Confederate States Army, and then in the Confederate States Senate from 1862 until 1865, the end of the American Civil War.

Albert Gallatin Brown in The Guns of the South[]

Albert Gallatin Brown (1813-1868) was the second Vice President of the Confederate States, and, along with Robert E. Lee, he was a founder of the Confederate Party. Brown was killed on March 4, 1868, just minutes after his inauguration.

Brown entered politics as governor of Mississippi, serving from 1844 to 1848. He served as a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1854 through 1861. When Mississippi seceded and joined the Confederate States, Brown was elected to the Confederate senate. In the years immediately following the Second American Revolution, Brown distinguished himself as an eloquent critic of President Jefferson Davis.

In 1867, presidential candidate Robert E. Lee asked Senator Brown to be his running mate, believing the man to be moderate enough on the question of slavery to help him with his plans for limited abolition. Brown was surprised, given his antagonistic relationship with Davis. Moreover, he was not immediately willing to accept the offer until Lee justified his views on slavery and how exactly he intended to act against it. To Lee's mild embarrassment, he was only familiar with Brown's Confederate voting record, not his extremely pro-slavery Union record. But his arguments on how slavery posed an eventual risk to their country and plans for a non-confiscatory solution, combined with Brown's own political ambitions, convinced the senator to join his campaign.

Brown helped birth the country's first political party, the Confederate Party. The ticket was elected in a close election. However, on March 4, 1868, just minutes after Brown was sworn in, a group of Rivington Men (the suppliers of the AK-47s that gave the C.S. victory) attacked the inauguration. Brown was killed in the spray of bullets.

Political offices
(OTL)
Preceded by
Tilghman Tucker
Governor of Mississippi
1844–1848
Succeeded by
Joseph W. Matthews
Preceded by
Walker Brooke
United States Senator from Mississippi
1854-1861
Succeeded by
A period of vacancy then Hiram Rhodes Revels
Political offices
(The Guns of the South)
Preceded by
Alexander Stephens
Vice President of the Confederate States
March 4, 1868 (killed minutes after being sworn in)
Succeeded by
Office vacant for remainder of novel
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