Thomas Fielder Bowie

Democrat Representative of Maryland's 6th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

April 7, 1808 (61 years old)

Birthday

October 30, 1869

Death

Attended Charlotte Hall Military Academy and Princeton College.
Graduated from Union College in 1827.
Co-founder of the Sigma Phi fraternity in 1827.
Admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Served as deputy attorney general for Prince George’s County from 1833 to 1842.
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1842 to 1846.
Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Maryland in 1843 and for the Thirty-second Congress in 1850.
Participated in the State constitutional convention in 1851 and assisted in framing Maryland’s new constitution.
Served as a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1852.
Elected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat, serving from 1855 to 1859.
Unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Resumed the practice of law after leaving Congress.
Died in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and is interred in the Waring family burying ground at Mount Pleasant.
Was a slave owner.