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3 unusual facts about Jonathan H. Rowell


Jonathan H. Rowell

Rowell was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections (Fifty-first Congress).


Jonathan Carter

Jonathan H. Carter (died 1887), North Carolina-born planter, sailor, and Confederate States of America gunboat builder

Jonathan H. Adler

Before becoming an academic, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Adler supported former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson in the 2008 presidential election.

Jonathan H. Carter

Low water levels in the Red River prevented the Missouri from participating in the defense of western Louisiana when the army of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks and the fleet of Admiral David Dixon Porter advanced on Shreveport in April 1864.

Ted Rowell

Theodore H. Rowell (1905–1979), Minnesota pharmaceutical industrialist and politician

Theodore H. Rowell

As Chairman of the International Bridge Committee, he successfully raised $1.6 million for construction of the International Bridge spanning the Rainy River, linking Baudette and Rainy River, Ontario.

Ted was a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention, where his friend Harold Stassen was the hands-down favorite to receive that year's Republican nomination for president.

Rowell was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, and was the great grandson of John S. Rowell of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (1825–1907), noted pioneer inventor and manufacturer of farm machinery.


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