Parson Brownlow

EPISODE · Feb 21, 2017 · 14 MIN

Parson Brownlow

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

If you think politics are nasty now, you should have lived in southern Appalachia in the middle of the nineteenth century. That’s where a Methodist circuit rider named Parson William Brownlow began his rise to political power as governor from his home in East Tennessee. Generally ranked dead-last on historians’ lists of Tennessee governors, Brownlow […]

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