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Bowlin, James Butler

lawyer, congressman, diplomatist, was born in 1804 in Spottsylvania county, Va. In 1835 he was elected a member of the legislature; in 1837 was made district attorney for St. Louis; and soon after attorney for the Bank of St. Louis. In 1839 he was elected judge of the criminal court; and was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1843 to 1851. In 1854 he was appointed minister resident to New Granada, and in 1858 was appointed commissioner to Paraguay. BOWMAN, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, soldier, was born May 15, 1803, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1826 he was appointed assistant engineer in the construction of the defenses and in the improvement of harbors and rivers on the Gulf of Mexico. He was promoted first lieutenant in 1835, and served with distinction through the civil war. He died Nov. 11, 1865, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.