Robert Lowry (Indiana)

Robert Lowry ( born April 2, 1824 in Killyleagh, United Kingdom, † January 27, 1904 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After his immigration to the United States, the Irishman Robert Lowry settled in Rochester in upstate New York, where he was educated at private schools. He then worked as a librarian for the Rochester Athenaeum and Young Men's Association. In 1843 he moved to Fort Wayne in Indiana. There he was in the years 1844 and 1845 Town Clerk (Recorder). After a subsequent law degree in 1846 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Goshen in this profession. In 1852 he was auditor in Elkhart County. In the same year he became a district judge.

Politically, Lowry was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore. Between 1864 and 1878 he worked at various courts as judges. In 1876 he was again a delegate to the national convention of the Democrats; In 1879, he became the first president of the Bar Association of Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1882 Lowry was in the twelfth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walpole G. Cole Rick on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. From 1885 to 1887, he headed the committee to control expenditure of the Treasury. In 1886, he was defeated by Republican James Bain White.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Lowry practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 27, 1904 in Fort Wayne.