Signed Thomas McLelland Browne IN Civil War General 7th Calvary & 1877 Congress

  
Signed Thomas McLelland Browne IN Civil War Brigadier GENERAL 7th Calvary & 1877 Congressman autographed album cut. Browne assisted in organizing the 7th Indiana Cavalry Regiment of the Union Army, and went to the field with that regiment as captain of Company B on August 28, 1863. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel on October 1, 1863. He was promoted to colonel on October 10, 1865, and subsequently brevetted a brigadier general to date from March 13, 1865.

After the war, he mustered out of the Army on February 18, 1866. He was appointed United States attorney for the District of Indiana in April 1869 and served until his resignation August 1, 1872.

In 1872 he ran against Benjamin Harrison for the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana. He won the nomination but was defeated in the general election by the Democratic candidate, Thomas A. He served as a delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention. Browne was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives, where he served from March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1891.

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