Robert Lowry
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Robert Lowry (March 10, 1830 January 19, 1910) was an American
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politician from Mississippi
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. During the American Civil War
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he rose from the rank of private to that of brigadier general in the Confederate States Army
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. Lowry briefly served in the state senate after the war (1865–1866). Between 1882 and 1890 he was the Democratic governor of Mississippi, serving two four-year terms.