Abraham Browning
Abraham Browning was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1845 to 1850 and a prominent citizen of Camden County, New Jersey.Biography
Browning was born near Camden in 1808 and entered the New Jersey bar in 1834. He was a delegate at the New Jersey Constitutional Convention in 1843, and later was appointed Attorney General under Governor Charles C. Stratton and stayed on during second tenure of Governor Daniel Haines. He would later serve as a delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention.
Browning's Cherry Hill Farm helped give Cherry Hill, New Jersey its name. He is often credited with coining the term "the Garden State", the official nickname of New Jersey,, though there is evidence that the term goes back to the colonial period.
