Albert Gallatin Brown

Albert Gallatin Brown (1813– 1880) was Governor of Mississippi from 1844 to 1847; a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1847-1853 and a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1854 through 1861. When Mississippi seceded from the Union, Brown served first as a captain in the Confederate States Army, and then in the Confederate Senate from 1863 through the end of the American Civil War.

Albert Gallatin Brown in The Guns of the South
Albert Gallatin Brown (1813-1868) was, along with Robert E. Lee, a founder of the Confederate Party 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 Confederate States, Brown was elected to the Confederate senate. In the years immediately following the Second American Revolution, Brown distinguished himself as an eloquent critic of President Jefferson Davis.

In 1867, presidential candidate Robert E. Lee asked Brown to be his running mate. Brown was surprised, given his relationship with Davis, but agreed. Moreover, Brown helped birth the country's first political party, the Confederate Party. 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.