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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaRobert LOWRY
(1824-1904)
LOWRY, Robert, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Killeleigh, County Down,
Ireland, April 2, 1824; immigrated to the United States and settled
in Rochester, N.Y.; educated in private schools and had partial
academic course; librarian of Rochester Athenaeum and Young
Men’s Association; studied law; moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., in
1843; city recorder in 1844 and 1845; was admitted to the bar in
1846 and commenced practice in Goshen, Ind.; auditor of Elkhart
County in 1852; circuit judge in 1852; president of the Democratic
State convention; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions
at Baltimore in 1860 and 1872; served as circuit judge from 1864
until January 1875, when he resigned; judge of the superior court
in 1877 and 1878; elected the first president of the Indiana State
Bar Association in July 1879; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3,
1887); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the
Treasury (Forty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice
of law; died in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Ind., January 27, 1904;
interment in Linderwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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