Joshua Adams Lowell (March 20, 1801 – March 13, 1874) was a

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from

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. He was born in Thomaston, Massachusetts (now in

) on March 20, 1801. He attended the common schools where he also taught. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

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. He was elected a member of the

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. He was elected as a

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to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843). He was chairman of Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Twenty-seventh Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842. Lowell resumed the practice of law, and died in East Machias on March 13, 1874. His interment was in the Village Cemetery.

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