Frederick W. Rowe

Frederick William Rowe ( born March 19, 1863 in Wappingers Falls, New York, † June 20, 1946 in Rockville Centre, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1914 and 1921 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick William Rowe was born during the Civil War in Wappingers Falls. He attended community schools. He graduated in 1882 at the De Garmo Institute in 1887 at Colgate University in Hamilton. He studied law. His admission to the bar he was in 1889 in New York City and then practiced until 1904 in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. Then he went to the construction of real estate in Brooklyn. He was president of several companies, including a street railway company. In addition, he was director of the Dime Savings Bank in Brooklyn. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Rowe was in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William M. Calder on March 4, 1915. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1920, he retired after March 3, 1921 from the Congress.

Then he went his former business activities after in New York City. He died on June 20, 1946 in Rockville Centre and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.