| 词条 | John Fowler (politician) |
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BiographyFowler was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on April 27, 1756, to John and Judith (Hudson) Fowler.[3][4] He attended the common schools.[5] He fought in the American Revolutionary War, joining Captain Patterson's company in 1777 as a first lieutenant and rising to the rank of captain in 1783.[3] Fowler studied at the College of William & Mary in 1780; he was a member of the Williamsburg Lodge Freemasons.[3] In 1783, Fowler moved to Lexington, Kentucky.[3] In October 1786, by act of the Virginia General Assembly, Fowler was appointed to serve as one of the trustees of the new city of Frankfort, Kentucky.[3] In June 1787, Fowler joined Captain James Brown's company of Kentucky volunteers, which fought Indians.[3] In 1787, Fowler was part of the Danville convention of 1787 (Kentucky's third statehood convention), representing Fayette County, then part of Virginia but later part of Kentucky.[3][5] The same year, Fowler was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.[3] On 1788, Fowler was Fayette County to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, which ratified the United States Constitution.[3] In 1788, Fowler, along with Richard Clough Anderson Sr. and Green Clay, established Lexington Freemason Lodge No. 1.[3] From 1787 to 1794, Fowler served as an ensign in the Lexington Light Infantry, and fought against Indians.[3] Fowler was a member of Kentucky Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, which was associated with the Danville Political Club.[3] Fowler was the treasurer of Transylvania Seminary from 1789 to 1793. He was "gentleman justice" for Woodford County, Kentucky from May 5, 1789 to 1794.[3] From 1792 to 1794, Fowler served as clerk of the court of oyer and terminer, and clerk to the directors of public buildings.[3] In the 1794 elections, Fowler was a candidate for U.S. Senate from Kentucky, but was eliminated on the first ballot in the Kentucky Legislature; Humphrey Marshall received eighteen votes, John Breckinridge sixteen, Fowler eight, and incumbent John Edwards seven.[6] (On the second ballot, Marshall defeated Breckinridge 28-22).[6] Fowler was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1797.[3] He was reelected several times—he served in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth congresses—and served a total of ten years, leaving office in 1807.[3] After leaving office, he served as a member of the board of trustees of Lexington, and chairman of the board from 1817 to 1818.[3] Fowler also served as the fourth postmaster of Lexington, from 1814 to 1822.[3] Fowler had large land holdings in Virginia and Kentucky. He was one of the founders of the Kentucky Agricultural Society.[3] Sometime before 1800, Fowler established "Fowler's Gardens" on three hundred acres near Lexington.[3] This large tract of land on the eastern edge of Lexington opened as a park in 1817, and the area was used for fairs, picnics, barbeques, political gatherings, and other events.[1] In 1802, Fowler donated ninety-three acres of land near Carlisle, Kentucky, to the Concord Presbyterian Church.[3] Fowler married Millicent Wills of Virginia sometime before 1789, and they had five children.[3] Millicent Wills Fowler predeceased him in July 1833.[3] Fowler died in Lexington on August 22, 1840.[3][5] He is buried in the Old Episcopal Cemetery in Lexington.[3][5] References1. ^1 2 John Dean Wright, Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass (University Press of Kentucky, 1982), p. 41. 2. ^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. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 [https://books.google.com/books?id=CcceBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA350#v=onepage&q&f=false Fowler, John], in The Kentucky Encyclopedia (University Press of Kentucky, 1992), ed. John E. Kleber, p. 350. 4. ^The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress gives a birth date of 1755, but the Kentucky Encyclopedia gives the 1756 date. 5. ^1 2 3 Fowler, John in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 6. ^1 Lowell H. Harrison & James C. Klotter, A New History of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 1997). External links{{CongBio|F000322}}{{s-start}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox| state=Kentucky | district=2 | before=Alexander D. Orr | after=John Boyle | years=1797–1803}}{{USRepSuccessionBox | state=Kentucky | district=5 | before=District created | after=Benjamin Howard | years=1803–1807}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fowler, John}} 16 : 1756 births|1840 deaths|American Freemasons|American military personnel of the Indian Wars|American planters|College of William & Mary alumni|Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention|18th-century American politicians|Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Kentucky Democratic-Republicans|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky|Members of the Virginia House of Delegates|Military personnel of the American Revolutionary War|People from Chesterfield County, Virginia|Politicians from Lexington, Kentucky|Political leaders of the American Revolution |
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