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Joseph Emerson Brown (Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, attorney and governor of Georgia)

b. 1821-04-15 d. 1894-11-30

Milledgeville, Georgia, attorney and governor of Georgia. South Carolina native. Married to Elizabeth Brown. Father of Julius Brown, Mary Brown, Joseph Brown, Frank Brown, Elizabeth Brown, and Charles J. Brown. Attended Yale Law School. Member of the Senate of the state of Georgia in 1849 as a member of the Democratic Party. Attorney in Cherokee County, Georgia, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Cherokee County in 1850. Attorney in Milledgeville in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Cherokee County in 1860. Governor of Georgia from November 6, 1857, to June 17, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Cherokee County, Division 5, p. 861

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, p. 153.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Cherokee County, Division 5, p. 377.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Cherokee County, Division 5, p. 4 & 8.

Find A Grave, "Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821-November 30, 1894)," Memorial #7826410, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7826410/joseph-emerson-brown (accessed January 28, 2020).

F. N. Boney, "Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894)" in New Encyclopedia od Georgia,

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/joseph-e-brown-1821-1894.


“Former Georgia Governors,” National Governors Association, https://www.nga.org/former-governors/georgia/ (accessed January 28, 2020).

Citation

Brown, Joseph Emerson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206056 (November 12, 2026).

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