Ralph P. Lowe

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Ralph Phillips Lowe (27 November 1805 – 22 December 1883) was the fourth Governor of Iowa.

Lowe was born in Warren County, Ohio. He settled in the town of Muscatine, and was selected as a representative to the Iowa state constitutional convention in 1844. He moved to Lee County at the end of the 1840s, and became the district judge succeeding George Henry Williams. He became an Iowa state court judge in 1852. In 1857 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, with Oran Faville as his Lieutenant. He won the election by a narrow margin (38,498 votes to 36,088) and served as Governor for two years between 1858 and 1860.

At the end of his term he was appointed as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, which he served as between 1860 and 1867. He resumed practicing law, and in 1874 moved to Washington, D.C., where he died on 22 December 1883. He was interred at Glenwood Cemetery.

Political offices
Preceded by James W. Grimes	Governor of Iowa 1858–1860	Succeeded by Samuel J. Kirkwood

v t e Governors of Iowa

Territorial (1838–1846)	Robert Lucas John Chambers James Clarke

State (since 1846)	Briggs Hempstead Grimes Lowe Kirkwood Stone Merrill Carpenter Kirkwood Newbold Gear Sherman Larrabee Boies Jackson Drake Shaw Cummins Garst Carroll Clarke Harding Kendall Hammill Turner Herring Kraschel Wilson Hickenlooper Blue Beardsley Elthon Hoegh Loveless Erbe Hughes Fulton Ray Branstad Vilsack Culver Branstad

Persondata
Name	Lowe, Ralph Phillips
Alternative names
Short description	American judge
Date of birth	27 November 1805
Place of birth
Date of death	22 December 1883
Place of death

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