# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/parson-brownlow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:05:25.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/parson-brownlow"
name: "Parson Brownlow"
slug: "parson-brownlow"
description: "William Gannaway \"Parson\" Brownlow was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875. Brownlow rose to prominence in the late 1830s and early 1840s as editor of the Whig, a polemical newspaper in East Tennessee that promoted Henry Clay and the Whig Party ideals, and also that repeated Brownlow's opposition to secession by the southern slave states in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Brownlow's uncompromising and radical viewpoints made him one of the most divisive figures in Tennessee political history and one of the most controversial Reconstruction era politicians of the United States."
tagline: "American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1877)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brownlow-william-by-george-drury.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1805-08-29"
deathDate: "1877-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.763440860215053
  historical:           11.20392933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump