John Kissig Cowen

John Kissig Cowen (* October 28, 1844 in Millersburg, Ohio, † April 26, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Cowen attended the common schools and then studied until 1866 at the Princeton College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his 1868 was admitted to the bar he began in Mansfield to work in this profession. Later, he was a prosecutor in Holmes County. 1872 Cowen moved to Baltimore in Maryland. He was until 1896 an attorney for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Cowen was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isidor Rayner on March 4, 1895. Since he resigned in 1896 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. From 1896 to 1901, he Cowen President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He died on 26 April 1904 in Chicago and was buried in his birthplace of Millersburg.