{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''Fielding Archer Browne''' ({{circa|1796}} – March 2, 1852) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the fourth mayor of Key West, Florida, 1833–34. During his term as mayor, many Bahamians immigrated to Key West.
He was originally from Virginia,<ref>''1850 United States Federal Census''</ref> and served in the 9th Regiment (Sharp's) Virginia Militia during the War of 1812. His brother had immigrated to Mexico and Browne followed, only to be shipwrecked in Key West on Christmas Eve 1830. He chose to stay and became one of the earliest American settlers on the island.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cutler |first1=Harry Gardner |title=History of Florida: Past and Present, Historical and Biographical |date=1923 |publisher=Lewis publishing Company |page= 422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7toBAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castellanos García |first1=Gerardo |title=Motivos de Cayo Hueso (contributión) a la historia de las emigraciones revolucionarias cubanas en Estados Unidos) |date=1935 |publisher=Ucar, Garcia y cia |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPcyAQAAIAAJ |language=es}}</ref> He served as vice consul for France and Spain. <ref>{{cite book |title=American Biographical Library |page=48 |url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2016&h=7807&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=UbK10282&_phstart=successSource |accessdate=21 June 2018 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> He married Angelina Sophia Folker on September 26, 1837, in Key West.<ref>''Florida, Marriage Indexes, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001''</ref>
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Category:Consuls for France Category:Consuls for Spain Category:1790s births Category:1852 deaths Category:Year of birth uncertain
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