Bill Green Lowrey (May 25, 1862 – September 2, 1947) was an American higher education administrator and politician who served four terms as a

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from

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from 1921 to 1929.

Early life

Bill Lowrey was born on May 25, 1862, in Kossuth, Mississippi. He attended public school and the Blue Mountain Academy in

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, graduating from

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at Clinton in 1887. During 1888-9 he was a student at

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Career

Higher education

Lowrey became a professor at Blue Mountain College. In 1898 he was promoted to president of the college, a position he held until 1911 when he moved to Texas to become the president of the Amarillo Military Academy. Leaving that post in 1916, he accepted a posting as field secretary for Hillman College and Blue Mountain College until 1920, when he was appointed vice president of the Blue Mountain College, a position he held until 1921.

Congress

Lowrey was elected as a

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to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1929), but was not renominated to the Seventy-first Congress (1929).

Later career

He served as clerk of the United States Court for the Northern District of Mississippi 1929–1935.

Family

Lowrey was the son of Mark Perrin Lowrey.The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 6
p. 122; publishied 1924

Death

Lowrey died in

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, September 2, 1947 and was interred in Blocker Cemetery.

References

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