Robert Lowry (April 2, 1824 – January 27, 1904) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Indiana
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.
Born in
Killyleagh
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,
County Down
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,
Ireland
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, Lowry immigrated to the
United States
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and settled in
Rochester, New York
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.
He was educated in private schools and had partial academic course.
Librarian of Rochester Athenaeum and Young Men's Association.
He studied law.
He moved to
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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, in 1843.
City recorder in 1844 and 1845.
He was
admitted to the bar
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in 1846 and commenced practice in
Goshen, Indiana
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.
Auditor of Elkhart County in 1852.
Circuit judge in 1852.
He served as president of the Democratic State convention.
He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore in 1860 and 1872.
He served as circuit judge from 1864 until January 1875, when he resigned.
He served as judge of the superior court in 1877 and 1878.
Lowry was elected the first president of the Indiana State Bar Association in July 1879.
Lowry was elected as a
Democrat
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to the
Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (
Forty-ninth Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the
Fiftieth Congress.
He resumed the practice of law.
He died in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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, January 27, 1904.
He was interred in Lindenwood Cemetery.
References
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1824 births
1904 deaths
People from Killyleagh
Politicians from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
Indiana state court judges
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges