Robert Lowry (politician, 1824)

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Robert Lowry (born April 2, 1824 in Killyleagh , United Kingdom , †  January 27, 1904 in Fort Wayne , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After immigrating to the United States, the native Irishman Robert Lowry settled in Rochester , New York State , where he was educated in private schools. He then worked as a librarian for the Rochester Athenaeum and the Young Men's Association . In 1843 he moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There he was council writer ( recorder ) in 1844 and 1845 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1846, he began to work in this profession in Goshen . In 1852 he was an auditor in Elkhart County . In the same year he became a district judge.

Politically, Lowry was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore . Between 1864 and 1878 he worked as a judge at various courts. In 1876 he was again a delegate at the Federal Democratic Party Congress; In 1879 he became the first president of the Indiana Bar Association. In the congressional election of 1882 , Lowry was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Walpole G. Colerick on March 4, 1883 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . From 1885 to 1887 he headed the Ministry of Finance's Expenditure Control Committee. In 1886 he was defeated by Republican James Bain White .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Robert Lowry practiced law again. He died in Fort Wayne on January 27, 1904.

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