Frank Orren Lowden was an American Republican Party politician who served as the 25th Governor of Illinois and as a United States Representative from Illinois.
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27 Facts About Frank Lowden
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Frank Lowden was a candidate for the Republican presidential nominations in 1920 and 1928.
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Frank Lowden emerged as a local Republican leader and served in the House of Representatives from 1906 to 1911.
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At the 1920 Republican National Convention, Frank Lowden was the preferred candidate of many of the party's conservatives.
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Frank Lowden's supporters coalesced behind Warren G Harding as a compromise candidate, and Harding won both the nomination and the 1920 presidential election.
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Frank Lowden was nominated for vice president at the 1924 Republican National Convention, but he declined the nomination.
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Frank Lowden was a candidate for president at the 1928 Republican National Convention, but Herbert Hoover won the nomination on the first ballot.
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Frank Lowden was born in Sunrise Township, Minnesota, the son of Nancy Elizabeth and Lorenzo Orren Frank Lowden, a blacksmith.
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Frank Lowden attended school when chores on the family farm allowed.
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Frank Lowden aspired to be a lawyer, but taught high school for a year while learning stenography.
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Frank Lowden was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced law in Chicago for about 20 years.
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In 1900, Frank Lowden declined the first assistant postmaster-generalship, offered him by President McKinley, whom he had supported.
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Frank Lowden was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900 and 1904, and from 1904 to 1912 was a member of the Republican National Committee.
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Frank Lowden was a member of the executive committee in 1904 and 1908.
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Frank Lowden was re-elected for succeeding terms until 1911, when he declined to run for another term.
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Frank Lowden introduced the budget system for state expenditure, thereby reducing the rate of taxation in spite of rising prices.
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Frank Lowden was a strong supporter of the death penalty, and when in 1918 both houses of the Illinois General Assembly voted to abolish capital punishment, he vetoed the bill.
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Frank Lowden was energetic in marshalling the resources of his state in support of the United States' World War I effort.
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Frank Lowden favoured woman suffrage and the enforcement of the Volstead Act for war-time prohibition.
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Frank Lowden was opposed to the League of Nations without reservations, on the ground that it would create a super-state.
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Frank Lowden was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1920.
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Frank Lowden's campaign was embarrassed by reports of profligate spending.
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