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Joseph Mackey Brown gravesite. Brown was governor of Georgia 1909 to 1911 and from 1912 to 1913.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia relates this regarding him and the Leo Frank lynching of 1915:
"Brown wrote several newspaper articles critical of the Leo Frank case and the judicial system in Georgia. Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, was convicted of raping and murdering Mary Phagan, a young female employee. Brown, a lifelong Baptist, fanned the flames of anti-Semitism with his commentary. After Frank's death sentence was commuted by Governor John M. Slaton, Brown asked rhetorically in the December 27, 1914, issue of the Augusta Chronicle whether Georgians should accept that "anybody except a Jew can be punished for a crime." Less than a year later, Brown revisited the Frank case in the Macon Telegraph and encouraged "the people to form mobs" to ensure that justice was carried out in the case. On August 17, 1915, a mob of white men indeed seized Frank from his prison cell in Milledgeville and lynched him in Marietta."
Other writers have implicated him in Franks lynching.
After his political carreer, Brown went on to practice business in Marietta, a northwest Atlanta suburb.
www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2138
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Joseph Mackey Brown gravesite. Brown was governor of Georgia 1909 to 1911 and from 1912 to 1913.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia relates this regarding him and the Leo Frank lynching of 1915:
"Brown wrote several newspaper articles critical of the Leo Frank case and the judicial system in Georgia. Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, was convicted of raping and murdering Mary Phagan, a young female employee. Brown, a lifelong Baptist, fanned the flames of anti-Semitism with his commentary. After Frank's death sentence was commuted by Governor John M. Slaton, Brown asked rhetorically in the December 27, 1914, issue of the Augusta Chronicle whether Georgians should accept that "anybody except a Jew can be punished for a crime." Less than a year later, Brown revisited the Frank case in the Macon Telegraph and encouraged "the people to form mobs" to ensure that justice was carried out in the case. On August 17, 1915, a mob of white men indeed seized Frank from his prison cell in Milledgeville and lynched him in Marietta."
Other writers have implicated him in Franks lynching.
After his political carreer, Brown went on to practice business in Marietta, a northwest Atlanta suburb.
www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2138