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Did Brown really run on a L-R ticket, as opposed to the Democratic one? I'm finding no reference to this outside of "ourcampaigns.com", doubtless whoever added it there had their sources. But it doesn't make sense that this Confederate veteran would do so, when every TN Congressional race had people running on the Democratic ticket, none on the L-R ticket. Other southern states in 1872 DID have L-R candidates instead of Democrats, but only in the states that were still under Reconstruction, which TN never was. The TN Blue Book doesn't note him switching parties. In any event, the text referring to him as the incumbent Liberal Republican Governor is inaccurate regardless of what ticket he ran on. He was a Democrat. He governed as a Democrat in his first term, he did so again in his second term. I'm not going to be "bold" and remove it since the one source (reliability unclear) does say he ran as a L-R. But it would be nice for some confirmation. Danthemankhan02:26, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
