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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyJohn ROWAN
(1773-1843)
Senate Years of Service:
1825-1831Party: JacksonianROWAN, John, (uncle of
Robert Todd Lytle), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky;
born near York, York County, Pa., July 12, 1773; moved to Kentucky
around 1783; received a thorough classical training; studied law in
Lexington; admitted to the bar in 1795 and commenced practice in
Louisville; member of the second State constitutional convention
held at Frankfort in 1799; secretary of State of Kentucky
1804-1806; elected as a Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4,
1807-March 3, 1809); member, State house of representatives
1813-1817, 1822, 1824; judge of the court of appeals 1819-1821;
elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1825,
to March 3, 1831; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary
(Twenty-first Congress); appointed commissioner for carrying out
the treaty of 1839 with the Republic of Mexico; president of the
Kentucky Historical Society from 1838 until his death in
Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1843; interment in the family burial
ground at Federal Hill, near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Fackler, Stephen. “John Rowan and the Demise
of Jeffersonian Republicanism in Kentucky, 1819-1831.”
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 78 (Winter
1980): 1-26; Jillson, Willard Rouse. Tales of the Dark and
Bloody Ground: A Group of Fifteen Original Papers on the Early
History of Kentucky. Louisville: Dearing Printing Co.,
1930.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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