sentences:  Admitted to the Virginia bar in 1868, Browne and returned to his home town to practice law, and his elder brother also returned and advocated agricultural reforms as well as held a state job regulating the oyster industry.Accomack County voters elected Browne as Commonwealth attorney (prosecutor) in 1873, and re-elected him as well.In 1886, voters in the surrounding 1st Congressional district narrowly elected Browne as a Republican to represent them in the 50th United States Congress.