Bowden, Lemuel Jackson

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Lemuel Jackson Bowden
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    William & Mary
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Union (Unconditional Union, National Union)
    Government
    US Senate
    State legislature

    Lemuel Jackson Bowden (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    BOWDEN, Lemuel Jackson,  (uncle of George Edwin Bowden), a Senator from Virginia; born in Williamsburg, James City County, Va., January 16, 1815; graduated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Williamsburg; member, State house of delegates 1841-1846; delegate to the Virginia constitutional conventions in 1849 and 1851; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1863, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 2, 1864; interment in Congressional Cemetery.
    “Bowden, Lemuel Jackson,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000678.
    How to Cite This Page: "Bowden, Lemuel Jackson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5147.