Abraham Browning

Biography

Browning was born near Camden in 1808 and entered the New Jersey bar in 1834. He was a delegate at the New Jersey Constitutional Convention in 1843, and later was appointed was Attorney General under Governor Charles C. Stratton and stayed on during second tenure of Governor Daniel Haines. He would later serve as a delegate to 1864 Democratic National Convention. Browning is often credited with coining the term "the Garden State", the official nickname of New Jersey, however there is evidence that the term goes back to the colonial period.