Bill G. Lowrey
Harris & Ewing portrait
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMississippi's2nd district
In office March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1929
Preceded by	Hubert D. Stephens
Succeeded by	Wall Doxey
Personal details
Born	Bill Green Lowrey (1862-05-25)May 25, 1862 Kossuth, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	September 2, 1947(1947-09-02) (aged 85) Olive Branch, Mississippi, U.S.
Resting place	Blocker Cemetery
Political party	Democratic
Education	Blue Mountain Academy
Alma mater	Mississippi College Tulane University

Bill Green Lowrey (May 25, 1862 – September 2, 1947) was an American higher education administrator and politician who served four terms as aU.S. Representative fromMississippi from 1921 to 1929.

Bill Lowrey was born on May 25, 1862, inKossuth, Mississippi. He attended public school and the Blue Mountain Academy inBlue Mountain, Mississippi, graduating fromMississippi College at Clinton in 1887. During 1888-9 he was a student atTulane University,New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lowrey became a professor at Blue Mountain College. In 1898 he was promoted to president of the college, a position he held until 1911 when he moved to Texas to become the president of the Amarillo Military Academy. Leaving that post in 1916, he accepted a posting as field secretary forHillman College and Blue Mountain College until 1920, when he was appointed vice president of the Blue Mountain College, a position he held until 1921.

Lowrey was elected as aDemocrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1929), but was not renominated to the Seventy-first Congress (1929).

He served as clerk of the United States Court for the Northern District of Mississippi 1929–1935.

Lowrey was the son ofMark Perrin Lowrey.^[1]

Lowrey died inOlive Branch, Mississippi, September 2, 1947 and was interred in Blocker Cemetery.

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