John Browne was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 at various times between 1621 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War

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Browne was the son of John Browne of Frampton, Dorset. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford

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 on 13 October 1598, aged 16. He was a student of the Middle Temple

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 in 1599. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Bridport

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. He was re-elected MP for Bridport in 1628 but his election was declared void on 12 April. In June 1641 he was elected MP for Dorset

Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the Long Parliament

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 and sat until 1653, surviving Pride's Purge

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in 1648. He was a commissioner on the trial of the King in 1649, but did not act.

Browne died at the age of 78.