Robert Brownlee Currey
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Robert Brownlee Currey (1774–1848) was an American
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politician.Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
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, from 1822 to 1824.The East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications,
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Early life

Currey was born in 1774.


Career

Currey served as the first United States Postmaster in Nashville.Mary Bondurant Warren, ''Family Puzzlers'', Heritage Papers, Issues 1368-1392, 199

/ref> From 1822 to 1824, he served as Mayor of Nashville.


Personal life and death

Currey was married to Jane Gray Owen. They had eight children,
Richard Owen Currey Richard Owen Currey (1816–1865) was an American academic, physician and Presbyterian minister. He was a professor at the University of Nashville and the publisher of agrarian and medical journals. During the American Civil War, he was a surgeon ...
(1816–1865), Algernon B. (died 1815, 7 months old), Robert B. (1817–1860), William Hume (1818–1831), Algernon S., Washington J., John, and Elizabeth Jane. He died on December 8, 1848, in Nashville.


References

1774 births 1848 deaths 19th-century mayors of places in Tennessee Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee {{Tennessee-stub