David Perley Lowe (August 22, 1823 – April 10, 1882) was a representative from

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. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1851 and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

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. He moved to

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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

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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 (

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) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874. He was appointed chief justice of

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by President

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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
/ref> Perhaps best remembered for his support of

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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

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowe, David Perley 1823 births 1882 deaths University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni Republican Party Kansas state senators Kansas state court judges Utah Territorial judges People from Fort Scott, Kansas Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas 19th-century American politicians Chief Justices of the Utah Supreme Court 19th-century American judges