[1] Originally a member of the Whig Party.
Father: Mackey Brown (b. 1797)
Mother: Sally Rice
Sister: Emeline
Sister: Prudence
Sister: Mary Elizabeth
Sister: Edna Elija
Brother: James Rice
Brother: William Carroll
Brother: Aaron Pleasant
Sister: Nancy Verlinda
Sister: Sally Melissa
Sister: Jemima Ann
Brother: John Mackey
Brother: George Washington
Wife: Elizabeth Grisham (m. 13-Jul-1847, six sons, two daughters)
Son: Julius Lewis (b. 31-May-1848)
Daughter: Mary Virginia (b. 5-Jan-1850)
Son: Joseph Mackey Brown (Governor of Georgia, b. 1851, d. 1932)
Son: Franklin Pierce (b. 15-Apr-1853)
Son: Elijah Alexander
Son: Charles McDonald (b. 1859, d. 1881 tuberculosis)
Daughter: Sally Eugenia
Son: George Marion
High School: Calhoun Academy
Law School: Yale Law School (attended one year)
US Senator, Georgia (appointed, 26-May-1880 to 3-Mar-1891)
Western Atlantic Railroad President
Georgia State Supreme Court Chief Justice (1868-70)
Governor of Georgia (1857-65)
Georgia State Official Judge, Superior Court, Blue Ridge Circuit (1855)
Georgia State Senate (1849)