Orestes Brownson

Orestes Brownson
Brownson in 1863, by G. P. A. Healy.
Born	Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-09-16)September 16, 1803 Stockbridge, Vermont, United States
Died	April 17, 1876(1876-04-17) (aged 72) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Resting place	Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame
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Orestes Augustus Brownson (September 16, 1803 – April 17, 1876) was an American intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer.

Brownson was a publicist, a career which spanned his affiliation with the New England Transcendentalists through his subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism.