Robert Lowry (governor)

This article is about the American politician. For the American composer, poet, and preacher, see Robert Wadsworth Lowry.

Robert Lowry (March 10, 1830 – January 19, 1910) was an American politician from Mississippi. During the American Civil War he rose from the rank of private to that of brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.^[1] Lowry briefly served in the state senate after the war (1865–1866). Between 1882 and 1890 he was the Democratic governor of Mississippi, serving two four-year terms.

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• Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.