Albert Gallatin Brown

Albert Gallatin Brown (1813-1868) was a politician from Mississippi and the second vice-president of the Confederate States. He was killed minutes after his inauguration.

Brown entered politics as governor of Mississippi, serving from 1844 to 1848. He served as a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1854 through 1861. When Mississippi seceded and joined the Confederacy, Brown was elected to the Confederate senate. In the years immediately following the Second American Revolution, Brown distinguished himself as an elequent critic of President Jefferson Davis.

In 1867, presidential candidate Robert E. Lee asked Brown to be his running mate. Brown was surprised, given relationship with Davis, but agreed. The ticket was elected. However, minutes after Brown was sworn in, a group of Rivington Men (the suppliers of the AK-47s that gave the C.S. victory) attacked the inauguration. Brown was killed in the spray of bullets.