Obadiah Bowne
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Obadiah Bowne was a United States Representative from New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. Born on Staten Island, he attended private schools, and was a student at Princeton College from 1838 to 1840. He held several local offices, and was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852, and was quarantine commissioner from 1857 to 1859. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1864. He died in Richmond Village, Staten Island in 1874; interment was in St. Andrew's Cemetery.
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