H. Robert Fowler

Hiram Robert Fowler (born February 7, 1851 in Eddyville , Pope County , Illinois , †  January 5, 1926 in Harrisburg , Illinois) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1915 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Fowler attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1880 the Illinois Normal University . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his 1884 admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Elizabethtown in this profession. From 1888 to 1892 he was a District Attorney in Hardin County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives ; from 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the 1910 congressional election , Fowler was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Republican Pleasant T. Chapman on March 4, 1911 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1915 . In 1913 the 16th and 17th amendments were ratified. In 1914, Fowler was not re-confirmed. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. From 1915 he lived in Harrisburg, where he died on January 5, 1926.

Web links

• H. Robert Fowler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)