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American politician
James Butler Bowlin
(January 16, 1804 ? July 19, 1874) was a
U.S. Representative
from
Missouri
. Born in
Spotsylvania County, Virginia
near
Fredericksburg
, Bowlin took an apprenticeship to a trade but abandoned it to teach at a school. He received a classical education and moved to
Lewisburg, Virginia
in 1825. Bowlin studied law and was
admitted to the bar
in 1822, commencing his practice in Greenbrier County. He moved to
St. Louis, Missouri
in 1833 and continued the practice of law. Bowlin also established the Farmers and Mechanics' Advocate. He owned slaves.
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Bowlin served as Chief Clerk of the State House of Representatives in 1836. He served as a member of the
Missouri House of Representatives
in 1836 and 1837, was appointed district attorney for St. Louis in 1837, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the State House of Representatives in 1838. Bowlin was elected judge of the criminal court in 1839 and served until his resignation in 1842.
Bowlin was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Twenty-eighth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843 ? March 3, 1851). He served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress.
Bowlin was appointed
Minister Resident
to
New Granada
by President
Pierce
December 13, 1854. He was appointed commissioner to
Paraguay
by President Buchanan September 9, 1858, and served until February 10, 1859, when the
expedition
to that country ended.
Afterwards, Bowlin resumed the practice of law. He died in St. Louis, July 19, 1874, and was interred in
Bellefontaine Cemetery
.
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