11 Facts About Richard Bowie

Richard Johns Bowie was an American politician and jurist.

Richard Johns Bowie was born on June 23,1807, to Margaret and Colonel Washington Bowie in Georgetown, Washington, DC, Bowie attended the public schools and Brookville Academy.

Richard Bowie studied law and graduated from the Georgetown Law School in 1826 with a LL.

Richard Bowie was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1829.

Richard Bowie served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1835 to 1837, served in the Maryland State Senate from 1837 to 1841, representing the Western Shore, was delegate to the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1840, and was State's attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland from 1844 to 1849.

Richard Bowie was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, serving from March 4,1849, to March 3,1853.

Richard Bowie was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor of Maryland in 1853, and resumed the practice of his profession in Rockville.

Richard Bowie served as chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1861 to 1867.

Richard Bowie later served as chief judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Maryland, and as such an associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland, from November 7,1871 until his death.

Richard Bowie had three adopted daughters: Emma, Rose and Marie Holland.

Richard Bowie died at Glen View, on March 12,1881, in Montgomery County, Maryland.