Control the Contingent Expense. Following Lincoln's assassination, Brown was vehemently opposed to new President Andrew Johnson's moderate plan of Reconstruction. He also supported the Radical-sponsored Civil Rights Bill and Freedmen's Bureau Bill. Brown left the Senate in 1867 because of ill health. In 1870, dissatisfied with the Missouri Republicans, he joined the new Liberal Republican Party. The party nominated Brown for governor, and he defeated Republican incumbent Joseph W. McClurg. Brown served as the Governor between 1871 and 1873. Presidential election of 1872 Brown was one of the contenders for the Liberal Republican presidential nomination, but lost to newspaper editor Horace Greeley. Brown was the vice presidential candidate under Greeley in the presidential election of 1872 for the Liberal Republican and Democratic parties. Greeley died on November 29 of illness, before the electoral college could vote, and the electoral votes (63 of 66) that were to have been for Greeley were split among four others, including Brown, who received eighteen of those electoral votes. The Republicans, incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant and the vice presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, won the election anyway. Brown returned to his law practice, quit the Republican Party and resumed his ties to the Democrats. He died in Kirkwood, Missouri and is interred there at Oak Hill Cemetery. References Retrieved on 2009-03-30 External links Brown biography |- |- |- |- |- |- 1826 births 1885 deaths 1872 United States vice-presidential candidates American duellists Burials in Missouri Candidates in the 1872 United States presidential election Democratic Party governors of Missouri Democratic Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Governors of Missouri Liberal Republican Party state governors of the United States Members of the Missouri House of Representatives Missouri Democrats Missouri Liberal Republicans Missouri Republicans Missouri Unconditional Unionists Politicians from Lexington, Kentucky People from St. Louis County, Missouri People of Missouri in the American Civil War Republican Party governors of Missouri Republican Party United States senators from Missouri Transylvania University alumni Unconditional Union Party United States senators Yale College alumni