Sylvanus Lowry

Sylvanus B. Lowry (1824 – 1865) was an American Democratic politician and pioneer.

Lowry was a slave owning Southern aristocrat from Kentucky who reigned as the political boss of Saint Cloud, Minnesota. He is well known in Minnesota folklore for his personal war with Abolitionist newspaper publisher Jane Grey Swisshelm.^[1]

Born in Kentucky, Lowry was the first mayor of Saint Cloud in 1856. He served in the Minnesota Territorial Council in 1852-1853 and later in the Minnesota State Senate in 1862. He died in St. Cloud.^[2]

Notes

^ Upper Mississippi Slavery, Minnesota Public Radio
^ Sylvanus Lowry, Minnesota Legislators Past and Present

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Name	Lowry, Sylvanus
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Date of birth	1824
Place of birth	Kentucky
Date of death	1865
Place of death	St. Cloud, Minnesota