Orestes Brownson (1803–1876)

American convert and essayist, editor of Brownson's Quarterly Review. Orestes Augustus Brownson was an American intellectual, activist, preacher, labor organizer, and writer. Brownson was also a noted Catholic convert. Brownson was a publicist, a career which spanned his affiliation with the New England Transcendentalists through his subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism.