William Henry Harrison Stowell

William Henry Harrison Stowell

William Henry Harrison Stowell (born July 26, 1840 in Windsor , Vermont , †  April 27, 1922 in Amherst , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1877 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Stowell attended the public schools in Boston , Massachusetts, as well as the Boston Latin School , which he graduated from in 1860. After the Civil War , he moved to Virginia in 1865. In 1869 he became the head of the tax office in the fourth financial district of that state. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In the 1870 congressional election , Stowell was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded George Booker on March 4, 1871 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1877 . In June 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , where Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the same year Stowell renounced another congressional candidacy.

In 1880 he moved to Appleton , Wisconsin , where he worked in papermaking. In 1886 he moved to Duluth , Minnesota . In this city, too, he was active in paper production; he also got into the steel business. Between 1889 and 1895 he served as President of the Manufacturers Bank of West Duluth . He then worked for several years as a newspaper correspondent in the French capital, Paris . In 1914 he settled in Amherst, where he died on April 27, 1922.

Web links

• William Henry Harrison Stowell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Henry Harrison Stowell in the database of Find a Grave (English)