succeeded death_date death_place birth_place jr/sr profession party preceded term birth_date article_title state name alma_mater
albert g. brown 18 february 1869 vicksburg , mississippi clarke county , virginia united states senator politician , lawyer whig , democrat henry s. foote february , 1853 18 , 1852 & ndash ; march 3 25 december 1813 walker brooke
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walker brooke

walker brooke -lrb- december 25 , 1813february 18 , 1869 -rrb- was a united states senator from mississippi .
born at page brooke , clarke county , virginia , he was the son of humphrey brooke and sarah walker page .
he attended the public schools in richmond , virginia and georgetown , d.c. .
he graduated from the university of virginia at charlottesville in 1835 , studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in lexington , mississippi .
he was a member of the mississippi house of representatives in 1848 and was a member of the mississippi senate in 1850 and 1852 .
brooke was elected as a whig to the u.s. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of henry s. foote and served from february 18 , 1852 , to march 3 , 1853 ; he was not a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law .
in 1857 he moved to vicksburg and continued the practice of law ; he was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1861 and became affiliated with the democratic party that year .
he was elected a member of the provisional confederate congress from mississippi in 1861 and served one year ; he was then appointed a member of the permanent military court of the confederate states .
brooke died in vicksburg in 1869 ; interment was in vicksburg cemetery .
