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|death_place = Houston, Texas |spouse = Mollie (Bergin) Browne |children = |residence = Houston, Texas |profession = Businessman }} John Thomas Browne (1845–1941) was an Irish-born merchant and politician. He served on the Houston City Council, served two terms as Mayor of Houston, and served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives. ==Early life== John Thomas Browne was born March 23, 1845 in Ballylanders, County Limerick, Ireland to Michael and Winnifred Browne. His family emigrated to the United States in 1851. Not long after arriving in New Orleans, his father died. In 1852, Winnifred relocated with her five children to Houston, Texas.〔(1895) A History of Texas and Texans, Together with a Biographical Sketch of the Cities of Houston and Galveston, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, p.384-385.〕 Browne spent much of the 1850s on Spann Plantation in Washington County, Texas at the behest of Father Gunnard, where he also received an education. At age fourteen in 1859, he left the plantation, and found work hauling bricks in Madison County, Texas. He returned to Houston to first work as a baggage hauler, then performed messenger duties for Commercial and Southwestern Express Company before settling in at the Houston and Texas Central Railroad.〔 The 1860 Census listed John residing with his mother in Houston's Fourth Ward.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John T. Browne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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