Thomas Fielder Bowie

Thomas Fielder Bowie ( born April 7, 1808 in Queen Anne, Prince George's County, Maryland, † October 30, 1869 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Bowie was a great-nephew of Congressman Walter Bowie (1748-1810) and the brother of U.S. Senator and Attorney Reverdy Johnson ( 1796-1876 ). He attended Charlotte Hall Academy in Saint Mary's County and then the Princeton College, and until 1827 the Union College in Schenectady, New York. After a subsequent law studies and his 1829 was admitted to a lawyer, he began in Upper Marlboro to work in this profession. Between 1833 and 1842 he was a deputy district attorney in Prince George's County.

Politically, Bowie was first a member of the Whig party. The mid-1850s he moved to the Democrats. In the years 1842 to 1846 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1843 he competed unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of Maryland. A Congress candidate in 1850 was crowned as little success. In 1851, Bowie was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland. He was also the 1852 elector for the Whigs in the presidential elections of the year.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Bowie was as a Democrat in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Augustus Rhodes Sollers on March 4, 1855. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1858, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Bowie again practiced as a lawyer. He died on October 30, 1869 in Upper Marlboro.