Former Tennessee Governor Joseph Brosnahan

Joseph Patrick William Brosnahan - October 8th 1795 - November 25th 1877 was the 17th Governor of the State of Tennessee from 1859-1863, he was one of the Most controversial Politicians in American History, Mostly responsible of the Brosnahanist Revolt of 1856 in an attempt to cede from the United States following the 1856 United States Presidential election


 * Early Life

Joseph Patrick William Brosnahan was born in New York at the night of October 8th 1795


 * Serving the country in a time of war

Joseph fought the war of 1812 against the British invasion


 * Political Career

Brosnahan first ran as a Federalist in the 1848 Presidential election but failed