John Rowan

John Rowan

John Rowan (born July 12, 1773 in York , Province of Pennsylvania , †  July 13, 1843 in Louisville , Kentucky ) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ) who represented the state of Kentucky in both chambers of Congress .

John Rowan moved his family to Kentucky from Pennsylvania when he was about ten years old. After the end of his schooling, he studied in Lexington Law and was admitted to the bar in 1795, after which he started practicing as a lawyer in Louisville.

In 1799, Rowan was a delegate to the Second Kentucky State Constitutional Convention in Frankfort . Between 1804 and 1806 he held the office of Secretary of State in the state government before he moved into the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1807 as a representative of the 3rd electoral district of Kentucky . There he remained until March 3, 1809. From 1813 to 1817 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives before serving as a judge on the state appeals court between 1819 and 1821 .

After a successful candidacy, John Rowan took one of Kentucky's two seats in the United States Senate from March 4, 1825 . During his six-year term in office, he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee . After leaving Congress in 1839, he was charged with signing a treaty with Mexico . From 1838 until his death, he was President of the Kentucky Historical Society .

John Rowan, whose nephew Robert Todd Lytle was also a member of the US House of Representatives between 1833 and 1835, died in Louisville the day after his 70th birthday. The Rowan County , Kentucky was named after him.

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• John Rowan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Rowan in the database of Find a Grave (English)