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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam Dale OWEN
(1846-1906)
OWEN, William Dale, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Bloomington, Ind., on
September 6, 1846; attended Indiana University at Bloomington in
1865 and entered upon the study of law; relinquished law for the
ministry; pastor of the Logansport (Ind.) Christian Church until
1878; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;
elected secretary of state of Indiana and served from January 16,
1895, to January 15, 1899; engaged in real estate speculation and
interested in rubber plantations in Mexico; in 1906 went to Europe,
where he died.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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