The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-09
.BROWNLOW DIES
IN JOHNSON CITY
Was Representative in Congress
Of First Tennessee
District.
ILL SINCE LAST DECEMBER
-Congressmarp's Death Will Re
suit in Stateof Political
Confusion.
ILL SINCE LAST DECEMBER

Bristol, Va. July S.--Representative
Walter Preston Brownlow. of the First
Congressional District of Tennessee,
died in the hospital of the Mountain
Branch of the National Soldiers Home
at Johnson City. Tenn. ut Sis o'clock
this evening. For three days he had
been In state of coma, due to urae-
mic poisoning, resulting from Brights
disease. He had been declining from
the disease since last December. but
his condition had been critical only
since May 80 last.
Representative Rrownlow was past
sixty years of agS. He had served
the district seven terms in succession,
and had been nominated for another
term He made record SURPRISING
all other Congressman from the South
7 In point of achievements I'm the way
Of appropriations for his district, the
appropriations aggregating several
millions of dollars.
He is survived by his wife and five
children.
The funeral will be conducted from
the mountain branch of the National
Eoldiers' Home at 10 o'clook NEXT ,
Monday morning, and the body Will
be buried at the home. The details
of the funeral will not be determined
upon before. to-morrow
POut1CAl SOuIuSIOH.
The death of Congressman Brown
low will result in state of political
confusion, as there are many aspi-
rants who are likely to see the po-
sition. 1t will be struggle between
the Brownlow and Evans factions
with Sam r. Sells as the leader of the
latter.
Congressman Brownlow held his or
Ganization together in spite OF the
most determined factional opposition
n tnr rR-a
over other candidates While 1t Is
pretty certain that the Evans faction
will be led by $. r. Sells In tht
struggle to name Colonel BrownloW's
the Brownlow faction who are likely
to aspire to the position. among then
being Judge McHenderson, of Sewer
county: j.. w. Howard, postmaster a.
Greeneville: Daniel Swaub. of Clat.
borne county. and Chancellor H. Fl
Haynes. of Bristol.
Worked Hard for Constituents.
Washington, D. c., July S.--Waltel
Preston Browhlow. a familiar figure, II
the House. where he seldom spoke
but worked actively in committee ,ant
In the government departments, Whlci
he visited assiduously In behalf Of
his constituents, had served in Con
He left for Jonesboro. his home
early In June, following visit tc
- JOnnS HOPKINS EtOSpltdl III t1odlllulpie
He had been failing for some months
He left a fortune estimated at $780,,
900.
Mr., Brownlow. who was a nephew o
I"Fighting Parson" Brownlow. once
ran an engine from Rogersville, t
Bulls Gap. He worked into the news
paper business as reporter on tht
Knoxville Wing and Chronicle, edited
by his unole. United states Senator
Brownlow, and later, In 1876. he pur:
chased the Jonesboro Herald ant
Tribune. OF which he since had beer
editor and proprietor
He was chairman of the Congress
sional Campaign COMMITTEES of hi
district: delegate to the national Re,
publican conventions for tWenty-fv,
years; Republican national committee
man for Tennessee three times; door
keeper of the House In the Forty
seventh Congress-. and for fourteen
years thereafter a Representative II
Congress- For the last ter. years h
| had been a member of the Appropria
tions Corlmittee. He was married ant
! five children survive him,