Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877 (Personal Name)

His Secessionists and other scoundrels, 1999: CIP t.p. verso (William Gannaway Brownlow's ...)

His To whom it may concern, 1871: t.p. (W.G. Brownlow)

John Bell Brownlow Letter Finding Aid, via University of Tennessee Libraries website, June 29, 2007 (William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow; East Tennessee Unionist; ed. of the Knoxville Whig; [married] Eliza O'Brien Brownlow; [father of] John Bell Brownlow)

Edward Lynn Letter, 1863 Finding Aid, via University of Tennessee Libraries website, July 30, 2007 (Parson William Brownlow)

Lossing, B. J. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America, 1868: p. 37 (Rev. W.G. Brownlow D.D.; methodist preacher; prominent East Tenn. Loyalist; suffered persecution; falsely charged of burning railway-bridges in East Tenn.; secreted himself in the Smoky Mountains)

Special message of Gov. Wm. G. Brownlow, to the Tennessee General Assembly, at the called session, July 4th, 1866, 1866: cover (Governor)

Tenn. blue bk., 2007-2008 p. 495 (William Gannaway Brownlow, 1865-1869)

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed August 16, 2016 (Brownlow, William Gannaway, (uncle of Walter Preston Brownlow), a Senator from Tennessee; born near Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., August 29, 1805; attended the common schools; entered the Methodist ministry in 1826; moved to Elizabethton, Tenn., in 1828 and continued his ministerial duties; published and edited a newspaper called the Whig at Elizabethton in 1839; moved the paper to Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1840 and to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849, and from his caustic and trenchant editorials became widely known as 'the fighting parson'; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1842 to Congress; appointed by President Millard Fillmore in 1850 a member of the Tennessee River Commission for the Improvement of Navigation; delegate to the constitutional convention which reorganized the State government of Tennessee in 1864; elected Governor in 1865 and again in 1867; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Forty-third Congress); returned to journalism in Knoxville, Tenn., until his death there on April 29, 1877; interment in the Old Grey Cemetery.)