David Perley Lowe (August 22, 1823 – April 10, 1882) was a representative from
Kansas
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.
He graduated from the
Cincinnati Law College in 1851 and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Cincinnati, Ohio
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. He moved to
Mound City, Kansas
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History
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, in 1861 and continued the practice of law. He was a member of the State senate in 1863 and 1864 and served as a judge of the sixth judicial district 1867-1871. He moved to
Fort Scott in 1870 and was elected as a
Republican
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to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875). He was chairman of the
Committee on Mines and Mining (
Forty-third United States Congress
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) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874. He was appointed chief justice of
Utah Territory
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by President
Ulysses S. Grant
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in 1875. He returned to Kansas and settled in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, and was again elected judge of the sixth judicial district of Kansas in 1879 and served until his death in
Fort Scott, Kansas, April 10, 1882; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
David P. Lowe on the Find a grave website
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Perhaps best remembered for his support of civil rights
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legislation, Lowe was quoted by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1961 in Monroe v. Pape, discussing Congressional debate of the 1871 Civil Rights Act ( Ku Klux Klan Act): "While murder is stalking abroad in disguise, while whippings and lynchings and banishments have been visited upon unoffending American citizens, the local administrations have been found inadequate or unwilling to apply the proper corrective. Combinations, darker than the night hich
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hides them, conspiracies, wicked as the worst felons could devise, have gone unwhipped of justice. Immunity is given to crime, and the records of the public tribunals are searched in vain for any evidence of effective redress." ''Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167, 175 (1961), quoting Cong. Globe, 42nd Cong., 1st Sess., App. 166-167.''
References
*Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771–Present
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1823 births
1882 deaths
University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni
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