Gordon Browning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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politician and United States Army officer
Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1889
Place of Birth: Carroll County, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 23-May-1976
Profession: judge, lawyer, politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Gordon Browning
- Gordon Weaver Browning (November 22, 1889 – May 23, 1976) was an American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953.
- He also served six terms in the U.S.
- House of Representatives, from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s.
- As governor, he stabilized state finances, doubled the state's mileage of paved roads, and enacted legislation to curb voter fraud.
- His victory in the hard-fought 1948 gubernatorial campaign helped break the power of Memphis political boss E.
- H.
- Crump.In the years following World War II, Browning served in the Allied occupational government in Germany, and was a civil affairs advisor on the staff of General Dwight D.
- Eisenhower.
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