John Fowler (politician)
John Fowler | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 5th district | |
In office March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Benjamin Howard |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 2nd district | |
In office March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1803 | |
Preceded by | Alexander D. Orr |
Succeeded by | John Boyle |
Personal details | |
Born | Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. | April 27, 1756
Died | August 22, 1840 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. | (aged 84)
Resting place | Old Episcopal Cemetery |
John Fowler (April 27, 1756 – August 22, 1840)
Early life and education
Fowler was born in
Career
In 1783, Fowler moved to
Fowler was the treasurer of
Fowler was elected to the
Fowler had large land holdings in Virginia and Kentucky. He was one of the founders of the Kentucky Agricultural Society. Sometime before 1800, Fowler established "Fowler's Gardens" on three hundred acres near Lexington.
In 1802, Fowler donated ninety-three acres of land near Carlisle, Kentucky, to the Concord Presbyterian Church.[5]
Personal life
Fowler married Millicent Wills of Virginia sometime before 1789, and they had five children. Millicent Wills Fowler predeceased him in July 1833. Fowler died in Lexington on August 22, 1840. He is buried in the Old Episcopal Cemetery in Lexington.[5]
References
- ^ a b John Dean Wright, Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass (University Press of Kentucky, 1982), p. 41.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Perkins, Distinctions and Partitions Amongst Us: Identity and Interaction in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley" in Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998), p. 230.
- ^ The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress gives a birth date of 1755, but the Kentucky Encyclopedia gives the 1756 date.
- ^ a b Fowler, John in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Fowler, John, in The Kentucky Encyclopedia (University Press of Kentucky, 1992), ed. John E. Kleber, p. 350.
- ^ Lowell H. Harrison & James C. Klotter, A New History of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 1997).
External links
- United States Congress. "John Fowler (id: F000322)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.