James Butler Bowlin (1804 - 1874)

Born 16 Jan 1804 in Fredericksburg City, Virginia, United States

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Died 19 Jul 1874 at age 70 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

James Bowlin is Notable.

James was born in 1804. He passed away in 1874.

U.S. Congressman. Receiving a classical education, he was a school teacher, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced to practice law in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1833. He established the Farmers and Mechanics’ Advocate, was a member of the Missouri State House of Representatives, (1836-37), District Attorney for St. Louis, in 1837 and judge of the criminal court, (1839-42). In 1843, he was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and to the next three succeeding Congresses, serving until 1851. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he was appointed by President Pierce Minister Resident to New Granada, in 1854 and later appointed by President Buchanan commissioner to Paraguay, (1858-59). He then resumed the practice of law until his death at age 70.

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 May 2018), memorial page for James Butler Bowlin (16 Jan 1804–19 Jul 1874), Find A Grave: Memorial #5746032, citing Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Bowlin

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4XY-T66 : 12 April 2016), James B Bowlin, Missouri, United States; citing p. 43, family 271, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,315.

• Ancestry.com search for James Bowlin, b. 1804, d. 1874

• US Army history