Samuel Fowler

Who was Samuel Fowler?

Samuel Fowler was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the U.S. Representative from 1889 to 1893.

Fowler was the son of Colonel Samuel Fowler, an officer with the 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, and grandson of Samuel Fowler, who served in the House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837.

Fowler was born in Port Jervis, New York on March 22, 1851. He attended the Newton Academy, Princeton College, and Columbia Law School in New York City. He was admitted to the bar of New York in 1873 and of New Jersey in 1876 and practiced law in Newark and Newton, New Jersey.

Fowler was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, and served in office from March 4, 1889 to March 3, 1893, and was chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. He was not a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-third Congress.

After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. Fowler died in Newark on March 17, 1919. He was interred in North Church Cemetery in Hardyston Township, near Hamburg, New Jersey.