Lowe, Ralph P
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1805 in Montgomery county, Ohio. In 1849 he removed to Keokuk, Iowa; and in 1853 was elected judge of the first judicial district. In 1857, while serving his second term as district judge, he was elected governor of the state; and before the close of his term was elected a judge of the state supreme court for the term of six years. He became chief justice of that court. He died Dec. 22, 1883, in Washington, D. C.