Reminiscences of Gordon Browning : oral history, 1965.

Biographical Note

Governor.

Scope and Contents

Early years and family background in Tennessee; education, law training; early experience in law and politics; World War I; Congressman, description of Washington political scene in the 1920s and 1930s; Senate campaign, 1934; Governor of Tennessee, 1937-1939, Tennessee Valley Authority, state finances; World War II; Governor, 1949-1953. Anecdotes of many political figures: Huey Long, Edward H. Crump, Kenneth McKeller, Estes Kefauver.

Subjects

• Browning, Gordon, 1889-1976.
• Governors--Tennessee--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Riggs, Joseph H., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Tennessee--Politics and government--20th century.
• Tennessee Valley Authority.
• United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.
• World War, 1914-1918.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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