Port Jervis, New York
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– March 17, 1919, in
Newark, New Jersey
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New Jersey
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U.S. representative
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for two terms from 1889 to 1893.
Early life and education
Fowler was the son of Colonel Samuel Fowler (1818–1863), an officer with the 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the
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, and grandson of Samuel Fowler (1779–1844), who served in the House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837.
His mother, Henrietta Laura Brodhead Fowler (1827-1869), had a first cousin, Marcia Ross Brodhead, who married Congressman Daniel Myers Van Auken, and another first cousin, Kate Brodhead, who married Congressman and Senator
Charles Van Wyck
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Port Jervis, New York
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, on March 22, 1851. He attended the Newton (N.J.) Academy, Princeton College, and
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in
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. He was admitted to the bar of New York in 1873 and of New Jersey in 1876 and practiced law in Newark and
Newton, New Jersey
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Congress
Fowler was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, and served in office from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1893, and was chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fifty-second Congress). He was not a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-third Congress.
Later life and death
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
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