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Benjamin Gratz Brown

Benjamin Gratz Brown
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20th Governor of Missouri
In office
January 4, 1871 – January 3, 1873
Lieutenant Joseph J. Gravely
Preceded by Joseph W. McClurg
Succeeded by Silas Woodson
United States Senator
from Missouri
In office
November 13, 1863 – March 3, 1867
Preceded by Robert Wilson
Succeeded by Charles D. Drake
Personal details
Born (1826-05-28)May 28, 1826
Frankfort, Kentucky
Died December 13, 1885(1885-12-13) (aged 59)
Kirkwood, Missouri
Political party Democratic
Republican
Unconditional Unionist
Liberal Republican
Residence St. Louis, Missouri
Alma mater Transylvania University
Yale College
Profession Politician, Lawyer
Military service
Service/branch Union Army
Years of service 1861–1863
Rank Union Army colonel rank insignia.png Colonel
Battles/wars American Civil War

Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885) was an American politician. He was a Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.

Brown was born in 1826 in Frankfort, Kentucky, the son of Judith Ann (Bledsoe) and Mason Brown. He was the grandson of Senators John Brown and Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky. He graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1845 where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, and from Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1847. He studied law, and later settled in St. Louis, Missouri. There he joined his cousin, Francis P. Blair, Jr., and Senator Thomas Hart Benton in a struggle against the pro-slavery faction for control of Missouri's Democratic Party. He was a correspondent for the Missouri Republican at the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) and served as the secretary at the treaty negotiations.


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