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Ralph Phillips Lowe (November 27, 1805 – December 22, 1883) was an American judge and the fourth Governor of Iowa.
Lowe was born in
Life and career
Lowe was born in Warren County, Ohio
Warren County is a County (United States), county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 242,337. Its county seat is Lebanon, Ohio, Lebanon. The county is ...
. He settled in the town of Muscatine, and was selected as a representative to the Iowa state constitutional convention in 1844. He moved to Lee County at the end of the 1840s, and became the district judge succeeding George Henry Williams
George Henry Williams (March 26, 1823April 4, 1910) was an American judge and politician. He served as chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, was the 32nd Attorney General of the United States, and was elected Oregon's U.S. senator, and serve ...
. He became an Iowa state court judge in 1852. In 1857 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
, with Oran Faville as his Lieutenant. He won the election by a narrow margin (38,498 votes to 36,088) and served as Governor for two years between 1858 and 1860.
At the end of his term he was appointed as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
The Iowa Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Iowa. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices.
The Court holds its regular sessions in Des Moines in the Iowa Judicial Branch Building located at 1111 E ...
, which he served as between 1860 and 1867. He resumed practicing law, and in 1874 moved to Washington, D.C., where he died on December 22, 1883. He was interred at Glenwood Cemetery.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowe, Ralph Phillips 1805 births 1883 deaths Republican Party governors of Iowa Iowa state court judges Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court People from Lee County, Iowa People from Muscatine, Iowa People from Warren County, Ohio People from Washington, D.C. Burials at Glenwood Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) 19th-century American judges 19th-century American politicians