Sydney Johnston Bowie (July 26, 1865 – May 7, 1928) was a

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from

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, nephew of Franklin Welsh Bowdon. Born in

Talladega, Alabama Talladega (, also ) is the county seat of Talladega County, Alabama, United States. It was incorporated in 1835. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,861. Talladega is approximately east of one of the state’s biggest cities, Birmingham. ...

, Bowie attended private schools, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1885. He was admitted to the bar June 1, 1885, and commenced practice in

. City clerk of Talladega in 1885 and 1886. He served as member of the board of aldermen in 1891. He served as member of the Democratic State executive committee in 1894–1899. He moved to

Anniston, Alabama Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. Acco ...

, in 1899. Bowie was elected as a

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to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1907). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906 and moved to Birmingham and continued the practice of law until 1919, when he engaged in business there as an automobile dealer. Bowie served as member of the Southern Education Board in 1908 and 1909. He served as member of the Birmingham Board of Education in 1915–1919, chairman of the State educational commission in 1920, delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention in 1920, president of the Alabama Tuberculosis Commission in 1920–1922, a member of the State harbor commission in 1922 and 1923. He died in

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...

, May 7, 1928. His interment occurred in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowie, Sydney Johnston 1865 births 1928 deaths People from Talladega, Alabama American people of Scottish descent Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama School board members in Alabama Politicians from Anniston, Alabama Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama Alabama lawyers University of Alabama School of Law alumni Burials at Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama) 19th-century American lawyers