Walter Lowrie was a teacher, farmer, and politician from Butler County, Pennsylvania

Butler County, Pennsylvania

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 174,083 people, 65,862 households, and 46,827 families residing in the county. The population density was 221 people per square mile . There were 69,868 housing units at an average density of 89 per square mile...

. He served in both houses in the state legislature

Pennsylvania General Assembly

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 and represented Pennsylvania

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 in the United States Senate

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. Serving as chairman of the Committee on Finance

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 during the 2nd session of the 17th Congress.

After his term as a Senator, Lowrie stayed on as Secretary of the Senate for eleven years. In 1836 he moved to New York City

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 and went to work with the Missionary Board of the Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian Church (USA)

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. He remained with them until his death. Three of his sons, John Cameron, Walter Macon, and Reuben, were prominent as missionaries to India

India

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 and China

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. A nephew, Walter H. Lowrie

Walter H. Lowrie

Water Hoge Lowrie was a Pennsylvania jurist.He was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, son of Walter Lowrie, and nephew of Senator Walter Lowrie. He became a lawyer, serving as a district judge in Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1851...

, later served as chief justice of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court

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Lowrie died in New York City in 1868 and is interred in the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.

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