Robert Brownlee Currey (1774–1848) was an American Jeffersonian Republican politician.Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TNNashville Library He served as the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, from 1822 to 1824.The East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications, East Tennessee Historical Society, Issue 50, 1982, p. 58
Early life Currey was born in 1774.
Career Currey served as the first United States Postmaster in Nashville.Mary Bondurant Warren, Family Puzzlers, Heritage Papers, Issues 1368-1392, 1995 From 1822 to 1824, he served as Mayor of Nashville.
Personal life and death Currey was married to Jane Gray Owen. They had eight children, Richard Owen Currey (1816–1865), Algernon B. (died 1815, 7 months old), Robert B. (1817–1860), William Hume (1818–1831), Algernon S., Washington J., John, and Elizabeth Jane. He died on December 8, 1848, in Nashville.
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