David Perley Lowe | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromKansas'sat-large district | |
| In office March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875 | |
| Preceded by | Sidney Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Seat eliminated |
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| Born | (1823-08-22)August 22, 1823 Utica, New York, US |
| Died | April 10, 1882(1882-04-10) (aged 58) |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery |
| Party | Republican |
David Perley Lowe (August 22, 1823 – April 10, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a representative fromKansas from 1871 to 1875.
He graduated from theCincinnati Law College in 1851 and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inCincinnati, Ohio. He moved toMound City, Kansas, in 1861 and continued the practice of law.
He was a member of the State senate in 1863 and 1864 and served as a judge of the sixth judicial district 1867-1871. He moved toFort Scott in 1870 and was elected as aRepublican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875). He was chairman of theCommittee on Mines and Mining (Forty-third United States Congress) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874.
He was appointed chief justice ofUtah Territory by PresidentUlysses S. Grant in 1875. He returned to Kansas and settled in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, and was again elected judge of the sixth judicial district of Kansas in 1879 and served until his death inFort Scott, Kansas, April 10, 1882.
Perhaps best remembered for his support ofcivil rights legislation, Lowe was quoted by theSupreme Court of the United States in 1961 inMonroe v. Pape, discussing Congressional debate of the1871 Civil Rights Act (Ku Klux Klan Act):
While murder is stalking abroad in disguise, while whippings and lynchings and banishments have been visited upon unoffending American citizens, the local administrations have been found inadequate or unwilling to apply the proper corrective. Combinations, darker than the night [which] hides them, conspiracies, wicked as the worst felons could devise, have gone unwhipped of justice. Immunity is given to crime, and the records of the public tribunals are searched in vain for any evidence of effective redress.
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