Background
Orville Hickman Browning was born on February 10, 1806 in Harrison County, Kentucky, the son of Micaijah Browning and Sally Brown.
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No Greek philosopher could have imagined a lot in life offering greater opportunity and incentive to success than that which fell to the young Browning. He was born three years and two days earlier than Abraham Lincoln to a gentle Kentucky family related by blood and marriage to clan after clan of the Kentuckians who helped to form the newer west. His parents had means enough to secure for him at Augusta College in Kentucky the greater part of the college education which fell to the lot of but few men of the time. Then a little before his graduation financial difficulties overtook his father and the young man, well equipped for life, was thrown into it on his own resources. Studying law in Kentucky, he came to Illinois in 1831, landing almost penniless at Quincy, to seek his fortune in the new west. This work picks up the thread of his life (in great detail) in 1850, and continues forward thereafter until the close of 1864. It is thus that we, the readers, are permitted an intimate glimpse into the life of a man who would assist in shaping a nation into a new political - and social - form.
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Excerpt from On Confiscation: Speech of Hon. O. H. Browning, of Illinois, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, June 25, 1862 Here I take issue with the Senator, and 111 in the most emphatic terms, that we may, at the same time, treat them both as enemies and! Criminals, and combine our penalties from the double sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Orville Hickman Browning was born on February 10, 1806 in Harrison County, Kentucky, the son of Micaijah Browning and Sally Brown.
Orville attended Augusta College, but financial reverses in his family compelled him to leave before receiving his degree. He studied law at Cynthiana, Kentucky, and in 1831 settled in Quincy, the county seat of Adams County, Illinois.
In 1842 Orville Browning was elected to the lower house in the General Assembly and in 1843 he contested the seat in Congress with Stephen A. Douglas. In 1850 and 1852 Browning was again defeated.
As a member of the state delegation to the Republican Convention of 1860, however, Browning took a prominent part in winning over other delegates to accept Lincoln as a second choice.
His own choice for the nomination was Judge Edward Bates of Missouri and he had endeavored in the earlier part of 1860 to line up the state of Illinois for him.
Lincoln showed Browning in advance the copy of his inaugural address and Browning suggested some important changes, regarding the new president's attitude toward federal property in the South, which Lincoln incorporated.
On the death of Stephen A. Douglas, Browning was appointed by Governor Yates to fill the unexpired term. This brought him to Washington for the special session of 1861 and the regular session of 1861-62.
In the Senate, for a while, he was the spokesman of Lincoln's Border State policy but gradually as Lincoln moved on in the direction of emancipation, he and Browning drifted apart. Browning took his political life in his hand by opposing the second Confiscation Act and made no secret of the fact that he regarded the Emancipation Proclamation as a calamity.
His backward attitude in the election of 1862 was partly responsible for the election of a Democratic legislature in Illinois, which in turn promptly elected William A. Richardson senator in his room. In the course of 1863 Browning returned to Washington to establish what was ostensibly a law partnership with Thomas Ewing, ex-Senator Cowan, and Britton Hill.
Actually, Ewing and Browning traded on their influence with the leaders of the Republican party in securing special favors for contractors. The collapse of the Confederacy prevented him from reaping his profits.
In May 1866 he was installed as Johnson's adviser on the Illinois patronage. He took an active part in the Philadelphia Convention and on September 1, 1866, became secretary of the interior in Johnson's cabinet. For a few months he also held the office of attorney-general. He had for some time foreseen the impeachment of Johnson and stood loyally by the President during his struggle. Along with Johnson, he left office on March 4, 1869.
Browning and his partner, Nehemiah Bushnell, had been engaged in a steadily expanding legal business since the fifties. Both men took a warm interest in the railroad development, Browning becoming one of the special attorneys for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
He argued before the Supreme Court the case of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy vs. Iowa which was one of the leading Granger cases.
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Like many conservative Illinois Whigs, he was slow to cast in his lot with the Republican party.
Browning engaged in politics as a Whig, and was elected state senator in 1836. He gained momentary unpopularity by refusing to support the internal improvement scheme espoused by Abraham Lincoln which almost wrecked the state financially. Like many conservative Illinois Whigs, he was slow to cast in his lot with the Republican party.
In the state convention of 1856, he drafted the platform, helping to give it the conservative slant that would attract the old Whigs to the new party. It is quite possible that Browning felt some jealousy at the rapid rise of his old associate, Abraham Lincoln, although the two had been most intimate friends for many years. He was suspected, probably not without reason, of lukewarmness in the cause of Lincoln's presidential aspirations.
On his return to Illinois he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the state constitutional convention of 1869-70.
The district had been formed by a Democratic legislature with the express intention of giving Douglas a seat but Browning ran him so strenuous a race that both men broke down physically on the eve of Douglas's election.
He was consistently a lawyer defending vested interests against the principles of government regulation. His influence was mainly responsible for the adoption of the principle of minority representation. It is interesting to note that he had willingly pledged himself to oppose the principle of negro suffrage.
As Browning was the advocate of the old Border State policy, he naturally turned with disgust from the radical reconstruction policy that followed the assassination of Lincoln. Accordingly, he became a supporter of Andrew Johnson.
In person, he was tall, well-built, of stately carriage, bald in later years, and with a ruddy complexion. He had the suave and formal manners of a Kentucky gentleman of the old school and wore ruffled shirts to the end of his life.
In 1836, Browning married Eliza H. Caldwell, a native of Kentucky. They had no children, but became the parents of a foster daughter whose mother had died. Emma Lord (1848-1885) resided with the Brownings from the age of five; she became the wife of Orrin Skinner, an attorney who practiced in New York and later moved to Chicago.
Browning renewed his old intimacy with Lincoln and in connection with James W. Singleton, an old Illinois Whig.
1807–188
After leaving office, he worked as a Washington lobbyist and lawyer in partnership with Edgar Cowan, Thomas Ewing and others.
1843–1843
