Lemuel J. Bowden

Lemuel Jackson Bowden ( born January 16, 1815 in Williamsburg, Virginia; † January 2, 1864 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. Senate.

After graduating from William and Mary College in his hometown of Williamsburg Lemuel Bowden studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice as a lawyer in the sequence.

In 1841 he worked as a member of the House of Representatives for the first time politically Virginia, where he remained until 1846. 1849 and 1851 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in each of the state. After the start of the Civil War Bowden remained loyal to the Union. He retired on March 4, 1863 as the representative of his had gone over to the Confederacy state in the U.S. Senate. Already at the beginning of the following year but died Lemuel Bowden in Washington, where he was buried at the Congress Cemetery.

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