Walter Lowrie

Walter Lowrie

Walter Lowrie (born December 10, 1784 in Edinburgh , Scotland , †  December 14, 1868 in New York City ) was an American politician who represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US Senate .

In 1791 Walter Lowrie left Scotland with his parents and moved to the United States, where the family settled in Butler County , Pennsylvania. After extensive training, he worked there himself as a teacher for a few years before he began to work in surveying technology and agriculture.

He took on his first political mandate in 1811 when he moved into the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and stayed there until 1812. From 1813 to 1819 Lowrie was then State Senator in Pennsylvania. As a member of the Democratic Republican Party , he was finally elected to the US Senate in Washington, DC , where he held his mandate from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1825. During this time his party split into several factions ; Lowrie was one of the supporters of William Harris Crawford , the so-called Crawford Republicans . In the Senate he was temporarily chairman of the finance committee .

Lowrie did not run again after six years, but stayed in Washington. On December 12, 1825, he replaced Charles Cutts in the office of Secretary of the Senate . He held this administrative post in the Senate until December 5, 1836. He then moved to New York, where he worked for the Presbyterian Church Mission until his death . Three of his sons served as missionaries in India and China . His nephew Walter H. Lowrie served as Chief Justice of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1863.

Web links

• Walter Lowrie in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter Lowrie in the database of Find a Grave (English)