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for president. Brownlow, who had become a celebrity in the North, led the faction that supported the
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Heiskell as an "old Whisky-rotted, broken-down political hack" who had only pretended to be a Unionist to support his family's Confederate interests. It also rehashed accusations that Joseph Brown Heiskell had committed multiple atrocities during the war.
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of the second district." On election day, Heiskell garnered just 217 of the 12,785 votes cast in the election, placing fifth and far behind the winner, Maynard. Heiskell blamed the lopsided loss on voter intimidation, and accused
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Brownlow began to sour. When the East Tennessee Convention reconvened in Knoxville in April 1864, Heiskell supported the convention's "conservative" faction, which opposed the
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Brownlow of exaggerating his "sufferings" at the hands of Confederate authorities in order to exploit northern sympathy and sell books. The
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Carrick served as a circuit court judge. Hugh Brown Heiskell was among the "49ers" who moved to California during the
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109:Preceded by
70:Preceded by
52:Knox County
1119:Categories
899:McKenzie,
834:McKenzie,
602:References
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326:Whig Party
226:Occupation
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413:Civil War
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190:Relations
180:Spouse(s)
99:In office
89:Mayor of
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821:Temple,
582:Arkansas
368:Register
333:Register
310:Register
570:Memphis
396:House
201:(son)
50:from
546:Whig
538:Whig
530:Whig
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