Lemuel Jackson Bowden

Unionist Senator of Virginia

Congresses Served

Senate Terms

January 1, 1815 (49 years old)

Birthday

January 1, 1864

Death

Graduated from the College of William and Mary in the early 1830s.
Practiced law in Williamsburg, Virginia, and served in the Virginia House of Delegates for several years in the 1840s.
Elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, representing a Tidewater delegate district.
Served as a presidential elector in 1860.
Became mayor of Williamsburg during the American Civil War, in a region occupied by Federal troops.
Appointed to the United States Senate by the Restored Government of Virginia in 1863, representing the Unionist Party.
Died of smallpox while in office in Washington, D.C., and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery.
His son and nephew both held significant political offices in Virginia post-Civil War.