Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1920 — NEW JERSEY SOLON DIES IN BARBER’S CHAIR [ARTICLE]

NEW JERSEY SOLON DIES IN BARBER’S CHAIR

Washington, D. C., March 24.— Representative W. J. Browning, of Camden, N. J., dropped dead today in the barber shop at the capital. Mr. Browning was about to step out of the barber’s chair when he was stricken . with an attack of heart disease. He died before physicians could reach the shop. Born in Camden, N. J., seventy years ago, Mr. BroWning had represented the first New Jersey district in congress since 1911, having been elected while serving as chief clerk of the house of representatives: He was the ranking republican member of the naval committee and handled the naval bill in the house, where it was passed late yesterday. Mr. Browning had been a member of the Camden board of education and city x council and was postmaster there from 1889 to-1894.