Union County Historical Society Blairsville Georgia

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Joseph E. Brown
Woody Gap School in Suches
was built on the site of Joseph. E. Brown's boyhood home.



1821 - 1894

Joseph E. Brown
of
Union County, Georgia

Brown was the first Georgia official to support public education for all children which at the time did not have popular support. He was a . . .

• School Teacher, Union County

• Lawyer / Farmer

• School Headmaster

• State Senator

• Circuit Judge

• Trustee, University of Georgia

• Governor, U.S.A.

• Secessionist!

• Governor,
C.S.A.

• Political Prisoner/Pardoned

• President, Atlanta Board of Education

• Chief Justice, GA.

• U.S. Senator



Always, "A man of the people"


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and how his story is connected to oxen,

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