Hiram Robert Fowler was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born near Eddyville, Illinois

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, Fowler attended the public schools of his native city, and graduated from the Illinois Normal University at Normal in 1880.
He studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and graduated in 1884.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1884 and commenced the practice of his profession in Elizabethtown, Illinois

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Elizabethtown is a village in Hardin County, Illinois, along the Ohio River. The population was 348 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hardin County. It the location of the Rose Hotel, an Illinois state historic site built about 1830. The village of Elizabethtown was founded around...

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State's attorney of Hardin County 1888-1892.
He served in the State house of representatives 1893-1895.
He served as member of the State senate 1900-1904.

Fowler was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-second

62nd United States Congress

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 and Sixty-third

63rd United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914.
He resumed the practice of law in Elizabethtown, Illinois

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He moved to Harrisburg, Illinois

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, in 1915 and continued practice until his death on January 5, 1926.
He was interred in Sunset Hill Cemetery.