William M. Lowe

Career

William Lowe attended Wesleyan University in Florence ( Alabama) and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, where he most recently held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and then started in Huntsville to practice on. Between 1865 and 1867 he was Solicitor in the 5th Judicial District.

Lowe also pursued a political career. He was in 1870 a member of the House of Representatives from Alabama and took 1875 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in part. He was then selected for the Greenback Party in the 46th Congress, where he held his position between 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1881. Lowe challenged the subsequent election of Joseph Wheeler at the 47th Congress of successful and served as of June 3, 1882 to his death in the same year on his property The Grove in Huntsville. He was buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery.

June 12 1842 Huntsville (Alabama) October 12 Florence (Alabama) Charlottesville, Virginia Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Benjamin S. Turner Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston James Edwin Belser Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) Eli Sims Shorter James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Burwell Boykin Lewis Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead Richmond P. Hobson William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman)
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