Benjamin Gratz Brown; American politician (1871-1873 Governor of Missouri).Lexintgton (Kentucky) 28. 5. 1826 - Kirkwood (Missouri) 13. 12. 1884.- "Great Expectation". -(Cartoon on the presidential election campaign in 1872: B. Gratz Brown; candidate of the Liberal Republicans for the office of the vice-president; as the proverbial mouse that the mountain gives birth. From the mouse left from Reuben Fenton; Horace Greeley; Lyman Trumbull; Carl Schurz; and Thomas Tipton).Wood engraving by Thomas Nast (1840-1902).From: Harper's Weekly; New York; 18 May 1872.