Gordon Browning

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Politician and United States Army officer (1889-1976)

United States PoliticiansLived 1889 to 1976 · aged 86

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Gordon Weaver Browning was an American progressive politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. S. House of Representatives, from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s.

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Governor Browning and his wife, Ida, greet U.S. Supreme Court justice James C. McReynolds (left) at a reception in Washington in 1937

Portrait of Browning as governor

The Browning Building at Austin Peay State University

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Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

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Gordon Weaver Browning was an American progressive politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. He also served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s. As governor, he stabilized state finances, doubled the state's mileage of paved roads, and enacted legislation to curb voter fraud. His victory in the hard-fought 1948 gubernatorial campaign helped break the power of Memphis political boss E. H. Crump.

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