Thomas Henry Bayly Browne
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromVirginia's1st district
In office March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891
Preceded by	Thomas Croxton
Succeeded by	William A. Jones
Personal details
Born	(1844-02-08)February 8, 1844 Drummondtown, Virginia, US
Died	August 27, 1892(1892-08-27) (aged 48) Drummondtown, Virginia, US
Party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Virginia School of Law
Occupation	Attorney
Military service
Allegiance	Confederate States of America
Branch/service	Confederate States Army
Unit	39th Virginia Infantry Stuart Horse Artillery
Battles/wars	American Civil War

Thomas Henry Bayly Browne (February 8, 1844 – August 27, 1892) was a Virginia lawyer, Confederate veteran and two-termRepublican member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromVirginia's 1st congressional district (1887–1891).^[1]

Browne was born in Drummondtown (renamedAccomac shortly after his death) inAccomack County onVirginia's Eastern Shore. His father was Dr. Peter Fielding Browne (1813-1880), and his mother, Sally Cropper Bayly (1813-1857), was likewise from an established planter family. He had a sister who died as an infant and an elder brother Orris Applethwaite Browne (1842-1898). Educated by private tutors, Browne later attended Hanover Academy and Bloomfield Academy, both in Virginia. After the American Civil War discussed below, Browne studied law and graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Virginia in 1867.

After the war, Browne married Anna Drummond Fletcher (1849-1926), and one of their daughters and two sons (including the future World War I artillery commander and Brigadier GeneralBeverly Fielding Browne) survived to adulthood.

During the Civil War Browne dropped out of school to enlist as a private in Company F of39th Virginia Infantry, where his widowed father served as surgeon (and would by 1864 run a division ofChimborazo Hospital in Richmond). Browne later fought with Chew's Battalion ofStuart Horse Artillery. He was with theArmy of Northern Virginia when it surrendered atAppomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. His elder brother Orris, after graduating from VMI in 1862, served on the CSS Shenandoah.

Admitted to the Virginia bar in 1868, Browne returned to his home town to practice law, and his elder brother also returned and advocated agricultural reforms as well as held a state job regulating the oyster industry.^[2] Accomack County voters elected Browne as Commonwealth attorney (prosecutor) in 1873, and re-elected him as well.

In 1886, voters in the surrounding1st Congressional district narrowly elected Browne as aRepublican to represent them in the50th United States Congress. He defeated incumbentThomas Croxton. Two years later Browne won re-election to the51st Congress, but in 1890 DemocratWilliam A. Jones defeated him.

Browne returned to his law practice in Drummondtown, where he died a few months later.

• 1886; Browne defeated the incumbent Democrat, Thomas Croxton, with 54.07% of the vote to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 1888; Browne was re-elected with 50.71% of the vote, defeating Democrat Gilmer S. Kendall.
• 1890; Browne lost his bid fore re-election, winning only 45.4% of the vote. DemocratWilliam A. Jones won.

• 1844 births
• Virginia lawyers
• 1892 deaths
• Republican Party United States representatives from Virginia
• Confederate States Army soldiers
• People of Virginia in the American Civil War
• 19th-century American lawyers
• People from Accomac, Virginia
• 19th-century Virginia politicians
• 19th-century United States representatives

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