John Lowell, Jr. was an American lawyer and notable member of the Federalist Party in the early days of the United States of America.

Career

John Lowell, Jr., graduated from Harvard

Harvard University

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 in 1786, and was admitted to the bar in 1789 (like John Lowell

John Lowell

John A. Lowell was an American lawyer, selectman, jurist, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and federal judge....

 his father, before he was twenty years old). He retired from active practice in 1803, and traveled to Europe

Europe

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After his return in 1806 he devoted himself to literature, writing on politics, agriculture, theology, and other topics, under various signatures, such as “Citizen of Massachusetts,” “Massachusetts Lawyer,” “Layman,” and “Yankee Farmer.” He opposed French

France

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 influence and the policies of the Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

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, writing many spirited pamphlets (some signed “The Boston Rebel,” some “The Roxbury Farmer”), including: The Antigallican (1797), Remarks on the Hon. J. Q. Adams's Review of Mr Ames's Works (1809), New England Patriot, being a Candid Comparison of the Principles and Conduct of the Washington and Jefferson Administrations (1810), Appeals to the People on the Causes and Consequences of War with Great Britain (1811) and Mr Madison's War (1812). The pamphlets contain an extreme statement of the anti-war party and defend impressment

Impressment

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 as a right of long standing.

After the war

War of 1812

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 Lowell abandoned politics, and won for himself the title of “the Columella of New England

New England

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” by his interest in agriculture — he was for many years president of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society. From 1810 until 1828 he was a member of the corporation of Harvard, which gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1814. He was a benefactor of the Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Edward Everett

Edward Everett

Edward Everett was an American politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State...

 said of him: “He possessed colloquial powers of the highest order and a flow of unstudied eloquence never surpassed, and rarely, as with him, united with the command of an accurate, elegant, and logical pen.”

Family

Francis Cabot Lowell, the founder of U.S.

United States

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cotton manufacturing, was his brother.