Oden Bowie
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Oden Bowie (November 10, 1826 – December 4, 1894), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 34th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872, and the first to be elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1867. He also served in the Maryland State Senate from 1867-1869. He was born in 1826 at Fairview in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he died in 1894.
Oden Bowie was the driving force behind the building of the fabled Pimlico Race Course in 1870 that in 1873 became home to the Preakness Stakes.
The city of Bowie, Maryland and the town of Odenton, Maryland are both named after the governor who was president of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad at the time.
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| Preceded by Thomas Swann |
Governor of Maryland 1869–1872 |
Succeeded by William Pinkney Whyte |
| Governors of Maryland |  |
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| Johnson • T. Lee • Paca • Smallwood • J. Howard • Plater • Brice • T. Lee • Stone • Henry • Ogle • Mercer • R. Bowie • Wright • E. Lloyd • R. Bowie • Winder • Ridgely • C. Goldsborough • Sprigg • Stevens • Kent • Martin • T. Carroll • Martin • G. Howard • J. Thomas • Veazey • Grason • F. Thomas • Pratt • P. Thomas • Lowe • Ligon • Hicks • Bradford • Swann • O. Bowie • Whyte • Groome • J. Carroll • Hamilton • McLane • H. Lloyd • Jackson • Brown • Lowndes • Smith • Warfield • Crothers • P. Goldsborough • Harrington • Ritchie • Nice • O'Conor • Lane • McKeldin • Tawes • Agnew • Mandel • B. Lee • Mandel • Hughes • Schaefer • Glendening • Ehrlich • O'Malley |
