Charles N. Fowler

Charles Newell Fowler (November 2, 1852, Lena, Illinois - May 27, 1932, Orange, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1903, and the 5th district from 1903 to 1911.

Fowler was born in Lena, Illinois on November 2, 1852. He attended the public schools in Lena and Beloit College. He graduated from Yale College in 1876, where he was a member of Skull and Bones,^[1]:35 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1878. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced the practice of law in Beloit, Kansas. Fowler moved to Cranford, New Jersey in 1883 and to Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1891 and engaged in banking, serving as president of a mortgage company.

Fowler was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1895-March 3, 1911. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (Fifty-seventh through Sixtieth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for election to the United States Senate in 1910.

Fowler was a member of the Republican State committee from 1898-1907. After leaving Congress, he resumed banking activities at Elizabeth. He also engaged in literary pursuits and operated a group of marble quarries in Vermont. In 1930, he moved to Orange, New Jersey, where he died on May 27, 1932. He was interred in Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.

References

1. ^ "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University , Deceased during the Year 1931-1932". Yale University. 15 October 1932. http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1931-32.pdf. Retrieved March 26, 2011. 

• Charles N. Fowler at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Charles Newell Fowler at The Political Graveyard
• Charles Newell Fowler at Find A Grave

External links

• Address of Hon. Charles N. Fowler of New Jersey in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, March 31, 1897
• An American Banking System By Charles Newell Fowler (1916)
• Seventeen Talks on the Banking Question By Charles Newell Fowler (1913)
• The Fowler Financial and Currency Bill Speech in the US House of Representatives by Charles Newell Fowler (1902)
• The National Issues of 1916 by Charles Newell Fowler (1916)
• The United States Reserve Bank: The Fundamental Defects of the Federal Reserve System Exposed and the Necessary Remedy By Charles Newell Fowler (1922)