Thomas Fielder Bowie

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Thomas Fielder Bowie (1859)

Thomas Fielder Bowie (born April 7, 1808 in Queen Anne , Prince George's County , Maryland , †  October 30, 1869 in Upper Marlboro , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Bowie was a great-nephew of Congressman Walter Bowie (1748-1810) and the brother-in-law of US Senator and Attorney General Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876). He attended Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's County and then the Princeton College and until 1827 the Union College in Schenectady in the state of New York . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1829, he began to work in Upper Marlboro in this profession. Between 1833 and 1842 he was assistant district attorney in Prince George's County.

Politically, Bowie was initially a member of the Whig Party . In the mid-1850s he switched to the Democrats . He served in the Maryland House of Representatives from 1842 to 1846 . In 1843 he ran unsuccessfully for the governor of Maryland. A congressional candidacy in 1850 was also unsuccessful. In 1851 Bowie was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Maryland Constitution. He was also an elector for the Whigs in the presidential election of 1852 .

In the congressional election of 1854 Bowie was elected as a Democrat in the sixth constituency of Maryland to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Augustus Rhodes Sollers on March 4, 1855 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . In 1858 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Thomas Bowie practiced law again. He died in Upper Marlboro on October 30, 1869.

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SURNAME Bowie, Thomas Fielder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Queen Anne , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1869
Place of death Upper Marlboro , Maryland