H. Robert Fowler

Hiram Robert Fowler (* February 7, 1851 in Eddyville, Pope County, Illinois; † January 5, 1926 in Harrisburg, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1915 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Fowler attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1880, the Illinois Normal University. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his 1884 was admitted to the bar he began in Elizabethtown to work in this profession. From 1888 to 1892 he was a prosecutor in Hardin County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1893 and 1895 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Fowler was in the 24th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Pleasant T. Chapman on March 4, 1911. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1915 two legislative sessions. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. 1914 Fowler has not been confirmed again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Since 1915 he lived in Harrisburg, where he died on 5 January 1926.