Raynors HCA 2018-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/15/2018
BROWN, Joseph Emerson (1821-1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was an attorney and politician, serving as the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, the only governor to serve four terms. After the American Civil War, he was elected by the state legislature as a two-term U.S. Senator, serving from 1880 to 1891. Brown was a leading secessionist in 1861, and led his state into the Confederacy. Manuscript Letter Signed “Joseph E. Brown” as U.S. Senator, 1pp. quarto, United States of America, Senate Chamber letterhead, March 14 , 1881, addressed to Governor Conly of Georgia, and reads in part: “..Senator Hill & I went the other day to see the post master general in reference to an increase of your clerk pay, & he stated that there was only about $800 commissions & c, out of which increases are made...I regret that he cannot do better.” Fine condition.
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