Lemuel Jackson Bowden
U. S. Senator, Virginia, 1863-1864
Born: January 16, 1815, Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia.
Died: January 2, 1864, Washington, D. C.
- Williarm and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, graduate.
- Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1838, and commenced practice in Williamsburg, Virginia.
- Member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1841-1846.
- Delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Conventions, 1849 and 1851.
- Presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and Everett, 1860.
- Elected from Virginia as a Republican to the U. S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1863, until his death in 1864.
Buried: Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)