Albert Gallatin Brown (31 May 1813 – 12 June 1880) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MS) from 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1841 (succeeding Thomas J. Word and preceding William M. Gwin) and from the 4th district from 4 March 1847 to 3 March 1855 (preceding Wiley P. Harris), Governor of Mississippi from 10 January 1844 to 10 January 1848 (succeeding Tilghman Tucker and preceding Joseph W. Matthews), and a US Senator from 7 January 1854 to 12 January 1861 (succeeding Walker Brooke and preceding Hiram Rhodes Revels).
Biography[]
Albert Gallatin Brown was born in Chester County, South Carolina in 1813, and his family moved to Mississippi when he was ten. By 1832, he owned a 1,600-acre plantation and 23 slaves, and he fathered his state's public school system by being one of the founders of the University of Mississippi. A strong advocate for the expansion of slavery, he served in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1841, as Governor from 1844 to 1848, in the House from 1847 to 1855, and in the US Senate from 1854 to 1861, and he sought to conquer Cuba and a four Mexican states to expand slavery. He resigned from the Senate in 1861 after his state seceded and joined the Confederacy, and he served as a Senator in the Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865. He died of apoplexy in Terry, Mississippi in 1880 at the age of 67.